Kelli

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

A point I’ve tried to hammer home is that tech in healthcare is only useful if enables a new workflow and as a result can change the economics of that process. For example, face-to-face telemedicine isn’t interesting because it’s the same workflow as an office visit, but asynchronous telemedicine lets you interact with many more patients and drop t... See more

The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You leant not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions, if you have any, which you do. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find... See more

People read nonfiction to learn and to feel. My framework for ensuring a blog post accomplishes both is to start with a first draft that focuses on "novel" ideas.

A novel idea is one that's not just new to the reader, but also significant and not easily intuited. Think of it as new and worthwhile . I've identified five categories:

• Counter-intuitive —

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What I’m in search of is maybe hard to explain in a neat sentence, but, maybe, it’s some sense of resonance. You know when you’re reading and you’re like “Oh, this person is saying this thing I’ve been thinking or feeling forever, but didn’t know how to express in words?” That’s a beautiful feeling when you can see yourself more clearly through som... See more

I keep punting this, am I reinforcing a permanent employee-only mindset? Am I locking myself into a single-channel system where all my leverage depends on others' approval?

You launch the side project—even if in micro-form. The real win isn’t the project itself, but the shift into a system of self-authorship and compound leverage.