Some promising strategies for anyone looking to nurture intellectual curiosity. — This essay was originally published as a weekly newsletter via Substack. If you enjoyed this essay, please consider sharing it with a friend or subscribing to the newsletter. One of the mistakes that people tend to make when choosing colleagues is selecting for credentials, rather than curiosity. This can work…

Designing, coding, and testing a machine learning pipeline for healthcare — Views and opinions expressed in this article are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer. Any information shared is drawn from publicly available sources and do not contain PHI/PII. The Background I work in healthcare and am surrounded by opportunities to improve the status quo with ML techniques. It…

A framework for making decisions when things are foggy. — Always gon’ be a whip that’s better than the the one you got Always gon’ be some clothes that’s fresher than the one’s you rock J. Cole — Love Yourz I’m going to describe a person that you know: They always seem to find themselves in the right place at…

Understanding why human psychology is preventing a solution to global warming. — Let’s play a game. Imagine you’ve just received a parking ticket that requires payment by mail. Before walking away, the police officer offers you a deal: you can go to the post office and pay the fine right now, or you can choose to pay an extra dollar to extend the deadline a few months. Standing before a group of students, Nobel Laureate and behavioral economist Richard Thaler asked this question in what would become a landmark experiment. Thaler’s research found that subjects tended to systematically overvalue near-term versus long-term rewards. …

Silicon Valley tells us that software is eating the world; for most people, that means Microsoft Office eating their workday. — Take a moment to check the applications you have running. How many Microsoft Office products are on that list? Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are required skills for most entry-level positions. College graduates joining the workforce can expect to find these tools required for 4 out of 5 open positions.

Elon Musk’s secretive brain-computer interface (BCI) company Neuralink presented the results of their work over the past two years. The presentation revealed a device that sits behind your ear and will allow you to control your phone with your thoughts. Use of the device requires undergoing a medical procedure where…

A collection of interesting headlines from (mostly) reputable sources. Elon Musk is sending Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa into orbit, and he’s bringing 8 artists with him in a project called #dearMoon. The average age in Uganda is 15 years old. In Japan, it’s 46. Uber is exploring an autonomous flying…

This post was inspired by a recent conversation where I was asked to describe my dream job. I’ve been fortunate to work in some incredible environments and I hope this post will serve as a benchmark. A good job is challenging. A good job requires a multi-disciplinary skill set and…

Exploring the impact of machine learning and predictive analytics on value based care. — Today’s youth will become tomorrow’s patients; how will they seek treatment? The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence is posed to reshape the way we make strategic decisions about our health. The healthcare industry is particularly ripe for innovation as we attempt to include the individual actions of billions into our…