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The Perpendicular Shadow
Personal Essay
The Humidity of Proof
Culture
The Weight of Pages
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Weight of Wet Heat
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
The Churning of the Lesser Fluids
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
Label: Road
Short Fiction
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
Meanline
Short Fiction
The Small Usefulness of Suspecting You Are a Fool
Essay
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
The Pharmacy Bandh Is Not About Apps. It Is About Trust Being Sold by the Strip.
Healthcare IT
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
Mood Bellwethers Before a Low
Personal Essay
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Bangalore and the Plumbing of Pretension
Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The Painful Tooth Fairy
Personal Essay
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Educated Horror of Having Nowhere to Go
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
The City That Begs at the Window
Society
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars
Society
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
Mind Is What the Brain Does, Not a Ghost in the Attic
Neuroscience
The Ghost as Perception
philosophy
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
The Middle Class on Tilted Stones
society
Pests we love
natural history
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The Last Economy
technology
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Vector Databases
healthcare it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
technology
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Missing Scientists
healthcare-it
Propofol, Nightmares
healthcare
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
Cicada, BA.3.2
public-health
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it