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Resume or Eulogy?
From David Brooks: The comment about how Adam I and Adam II are constantly at war with each other is scary, because it suggests that the pursuits associated with each Adam are fundamentally...
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Atul Gawande: We’re all pitcrews now
I’m a massive fan of Atul Gawande’s writing. It’s exceedingly rare where you can find a world-class surgeon – undoubtedly one of the most technically intensive professions out there – who can write as...
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Saying ‘I don’t know’
Surgeon and writer extraordinaire Atul Gawande noted in his book Complications how rare it is for trained and experienced doctors to admit to patients that they don’t know the answers. Why does Aaron’s...
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6 (funny) minutes on food
John Oliver is hilarious. The modern food environment we live in is faddish, confusing, misleading and at times even toxic. Put those two facts together and you get this:...
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Planning New York: Parks >>>>> Malls
There’re so many gems in this talk… Amanda Burden, New York’s chief city planner under the Bloomberg administration, arguably created more social and economic (even if only measured in higher property...
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At 17, I didn’t know that… (Part One)
1) … it was pointless getting upset about things I couldn’t control. The stoics are right: the extent to which you can control the world around you is minuscule, but you can entirely control your...
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Books (1)
After one of my regular book-buying binges on Amazon over the weekend, I had the idea of surveying a few (in my opinion very intelligent) friends of mine for their top 5 book recommendations. To begin...
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Healthcare
We all tend to associate the term ‘healthcare’ with medical care; we picture hospitals, doctors, sterility, drugs. However Google’s algorithms do it, we’re told that it refers to the ‘organised...
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My books of 2014
1. Being Mortal: Illness, medicine, and what matters in the end (Atul Gawande) 2. Dataclysm: Who we are (Christian Rudder) 3. Fat Chance: The hidden truth about sugar, obesity and disease (Robert...
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Remembering Lee Kuan Yew
Almost two weeks since his passing, I still think about Lee Kuan Yew all the time. I didn’t think it was possible to grief for the loss of a man I’ve never personally met, even though it’s always...
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