I read Eckhart Tolle a few years ago. It took a while to make it past the third chapter, and I had to read the early ones six times before I could get a grasp of it. It is hard for a brain to stop running possibilities, predicting scenarios, or thinking about the past. In a world with so much distraction, what Eckhart says can sound like nonsense. Stripped down, it is this. The present is the only thing you can act in. The past and the future are things the mind makes. The fi

A few days ago I was on a fundraising call, and we did not really talk about the company. We talked about our families, our journeys, our reasons. By the end we had given each other things most friends do not have. I am turning that hour over, trying to understand why that hour mattered more than the pitch would have. Why I felt reserved. I trained for two decades in a field built with the aim to remove uncertainty from the body. Diagnose, research, decide. Now I am introduci

Unexpected findings this week. Most clinical AI models stall before they reach a second hospital. Epic's sepsis model is the textbook case. It's one of the most widely deployed clinical AI tools in the US, running in hundreds of hospitals. It's sold as a way to warn doctors hours before a patient develops sepsis. In 2021, a team at Michigan independently tested it and published the results in JAMA Internal Medicine. The model caught only a third of sepsis cases, flagged rough