Field Notes
The Farm Boy Who Decoded How Ideas Spread
A farm boy's observations about hybrid corn adoption created the framework we still use to understand how innovations spread. It matters more than ever now that health systems are trying to figure out what to do with AI.
The Persistence of Reluctance: Why Doctors Still Hesitate at AI's Clinical Crossroads
Sixty-six years after Ledley and Lusted computerised medical diagnosis, physicians are still hesitant to embrace decision support tools. But this time, the reluctance might actually be justified.
When Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Deepfakes as a Public Health Crisis
As deepfake technology makes it impossible to trust what you see and hear, the implications extend well past fraud, into mental health, emergency response, and the basic architecture of public health communication. The erosion of reality itself has become a health crisis.
On being outgunned by the comp sci cohort
Everyone else seems to already speak the language. They do not, not really, and the gap closes faster than you think.
The square peg problem
Why the people who do not fit the mould tend to build the better systems. A theory, with evidence.