Writing
Essays on healthcare, artificial intelligence, leadership, institutions, travel, and whatever else I’m trying to understand. The goal is one thoughtful piece a month, for a long time. No engagement farming, just a record of thinking, kept honestly.
Ideas that survived long enough to earn a permanent home.
A field report from Poland’s national transplant agency in Warsaw and Ukraine’s wartime transplant center in Kyiv, set against the U.S. system as it heads into recertification. What each country does differently, what the data say about donor identification and organ yield, and what is worth borrowing in each direction. With photographs and figures. (PDF)
How Alachua County’s license plate reader program was built, what changed after Florida ordered the cameras off state roads, what remains on county streets, and what is still unanswered. Built entirely from public records produced in July and October 2026. Volume II, covering Putnam and Alachua counties as of July 2026, remains available here.
What travel actually teaches you, and why almost none of it is about travel. Seven lessons from fifty countries, most of them learned at somebody else’s table. With photographs.
A chartered jet, an ambulance running lights through a strange city, four surgical teams around one table, and a cooler that closes with a click. What an organ recovery flight actually feels like from the inside.
Five years and 850 procedures inside one of medicine’s least visible, least forgiving logistics networks, and what it teaches about designing for the worst night, not the average one.
On a February evening in Greenland, three problems arrived at once. A short essay about what you can control, and what you build afterward.
Singapore and Estonia are running two different experiments in the same hypothesis: that AI lets disciplined small states convert competence into global influence. An analytical piece with key judgments, case studies, and charts.
Tunisia and Myanmar suggest social media is not a root cause of instability, it is a force multiplier that accelerates whatever weaknesses already exist. An open-source analysis.
A childhood gift, a box of Legos, and the case that education is exposure, inside classrooms and far beyond them.