About

I’m a physician with diverse intellectual interests. This is a personal notebook, not a publication — a place to keep thinking that would otherwise disappear into chat logs and margins (i.e., the ether).

What shows up here is whatever I’m actually working on: arguments about AI and what minds are, Latin and the classics, clinical reasoning and how medicine handles uncertainty, coffee, and books. Most entries are notes — short, unfinished, sometimes wrong. A few are essays, which means only that I sat with the argument longer, not that I’ve settled it.

Publishing under my own name is deliberate. It means a post goes up only once I’ve read it as something a stranger might find on its own, with none of the context it came from. That rules out carelessness, not uncertainty — being wrong in public is the point of keeping this where anyone can see it.

Two conventions worth knowing. Each post carries an epistemic status saying how much weight it can bear. And when I get something wrong, the correction is dated and appended at the bottom rather than quietly edited into the original, so the record of having been wrong survives.

Epistemic status

Epistemic status indicates how mature and revisable the judgments in a post are. It applies to interpretations and conclusions; it is never permission to be loose with facts.

• Exploratory — The question, framework, or argument is still being developed; conclusions are provisional.
• Working — The post reflects my present considered judgment, while meaningful revision remains plausible.
• Settled — The central judgment has survived sustained reflection and is unlikely to change without significant new evidence or argument.
• Superseded — I have revised or abandoned the position. The post remains available as part of the record, with a successor linked where available.

You can reach me at [email protected].