Essays on what most people walk past.
This archive spans 2016–2026. The work I'm most proud of starts around 2025. Everything before it is where I was figuring out what I was trying to say.
A practical guide for medical conference organisers and hospital event leads on booking a healthcare keynote speaker: the brief, the questions to ask, and why 'an inspiring patient story' is the wrong request.
What a one-day Room Intensive in Vienna is, who it is for, why there is no agenda or slide deck, and how it differs from a leadership workshop or a retreat.
For HR leads and executives weighing a group workshop against private work: when a team session cannot hold what a person is carrying, and what one-to-one Testimony-Based Presence does instead.
For founders' events, business schools, and leadership offsites: what a keynote on constraint-based entrepreneurship should argue, and why it's different from a resilience or hustle talk.
For leadership and HR teams outside healthcare: what a keynote on performance culture and the invisible cost of appearing fine should target, and who should be in the room.
A keynote framework for HCP empowerment. Why empowering clinicians and empowering patients are the same structural project, not competing budget lines, and what an empowerment programme should actually target.
How to budget for a healthcare keynote speaker or patient expert: market brackets, why pharma rates differ, fair market value methodology, and the four line items organisers forget.
For hospital leadership and HR booking burnout prevention work: why yoga sessions and resilience apps don't move the numbers, what actually predicts clinician burnout, and how to structure an intervention that does.
For hospitals and clinical training programmes booking trauma-informed care training: why the poster-and-checklist version fails, what changes when it works, and how to brief it properly.
Most AI in healthcare keynotes are demos or warnings. For conference organisers booking an AI healthcare speaker: what a clinical audience needs instead, and why the patient's chair is the missing seat on the panel.
Why most empathy training for clinical staff fails to change behaviour, what the research and the ward actually show, and how to design an empathy session that survives contact with a twelve-minute appointment.
What a medical education keynote should do differently from a patient-story assembly: for faculties, grand rounds, and clinical training programmes booking a speaker on diagnostic delay and patient disbelief.
A keynote angle for health systems and pharma events: what changes in the exam room once patients and clinicians both consult AI before the appointment, and what that means for trust.
Booking a compassion fatigue or clinician burnout workshop for healthcare teams? Why most resilience training fails, what a working session looks like, and how to brief it so staff don't feel blamed.
For HR leaders and DEI programme owners booking a disability inclusion speaker: why invisible illness is the accommodation gap nobody measures, and what a keynote on chronic illness at work should actually argue.
For pharma, medtech and health system teams: why most patient advisory boards produce agreement instead of insight, how to compensate a patient expert properly, and what to change before the next one.
Every doctor I've ever seen keeps a piece of me. The lab company has my bloodwork. The hospital has my discharge notes. The specialist has the scan.
Patient experience consulting for health systems and hospitals: why satisfaction survey scores stay high while care fails, what a real patient experience audit finds, and how to commission one.
Patient-in-Residence program design for academic medical centres and teaching hospitals: governance, scope, compensation and impact metrics, from someone who has held the role four times.
Diagnostic equity and medical gaslighting training for medical schools, residency programmes and health systems: what actually causes patient disbelief, and how to build curriculum that changes clinical behaviour.
Product advisory for patient-facing digital health: why usability testing with healthy participants hides your real failures, and what a review from the chronic illness user perspective finds.
Performance culture consulting for leadership teams: why engagement surveys miss the cost of people performing being fine, what an organisational diagnostic measures instead, and when to commission one.
Inflammation is everywhere in chronic illness conversations. "Your body is attacking itself." "The inflammation is the problem." "We need to reduce
There's a specific kind of clarity that comes from living with migraines for decades. Not the clarity of "I've figured out how to cure this." The cl
Mental health isn't the absence of mental illness. It's also not the presence of happiness, or resilience, or any of the other words we use to descri
My mother has cancer. I used a local AI model to read her oncology records in Hebrew, cross-reference treatment protocols, and ask the questions her doctors didn't have time for.
There's a difference between knowing about depression and knowing depression. Falk Schuster knows depression. Not as a concept. As a morning that do
There's a specific kind of clarity that comes from studying medicine from the outside. Dr. Margret Jaeger is a medical anthropologist, which means s
There's a moment in every conversation where you realise the person across from you has lived something you haven't. Not just experienced it, survive
Yesterday, Spooniversity went live. Not with fanfare. Not with a countdown. Not with a launch post that performs excitement for an audience. I sent
Medical appointments are where patients lose their voice. You walk in with questions. The doctor has ten minutes. You walk out confused. Or you don'
The manifesto behind everything. Where the framework came from, what it actually means, and the moment I understood that the illness wasn't being treated because it hadn't been made speakable yet.
The invisible energy tax of every action: the social, professional, and emotional cost of living within severe limits, not only the physical one.
Not negligence. Structural failure. What actually happens inside the diagnostic process when a patient's symptoms don't fit the expected pattern.
I couldn't speak for years. Not that I lost the ability. But after seven years in bed, after months of not talking to anyone, after the dysautonomia
Healthcare is drowning in communication training that doesn't work. Clinicians learn scripts. Patients learn how to advocate. And then they sit in a
AI is coming to healthcare. It's already here. And we're asking all the wrong questions about whether it should be. The questions aren't "can AI dia
Healthcare runs focus groups. Surveys. Patient advisory boards. And then it builds systems that ignore everything patients actually told them. This
Seven years in bed. Then another seven learning how to think differently. This book exists because something shifted. Not in my body, that's still c
I wasn't planning to do this yet. The plan was to build the whole thing properly. All the tracks, the community infrastructure, the onboarding flow
When chronic illness strikes, you find yourself on an island. Not a tropical one. Not a quiet retreat. An island with no boats, no bridges, no signa
"Just get up." That's what the doctors kept saying. As though the problem was motivation. As though my legs had simply forgotten they had a job and
Why Chronically exists, and what 'honest writing about chronic illness' means when most illness media is built around uplift and resolution.
The worst crashes come after the best days. Why feeling good is a trap for people with chronic illness, and what the world gets wrong about recovery.
Working alone with chronic illness is both harder and better than anyone said. The loneliness is real. The freedom is real. Both things, simultaneously, all the time.
Not advice. Not inspiration. Seven things that became clear when everything else was stripped away, most of them arrived against my will.
The specific terror of building something real, making it public, and watching the users not arrive. On what you do in the silence after you ship.
Getting an exoskeleton changes the physical fact of movement. It doesn't change what it means to have needed one. On the gap between what technology promises and what it delivers.
Someone told me my book helped them while bedbound. I had no way to measure it. On the gap between the impact that gets tracked and the impact that actually matters.
On the impossibility of fitting a multi-dimensional life into a one-word answer, and what happens when you stop trying.
On MCAS, food intolerances, the expanding list of things that cause reactions, and the real grief underneath the semi-serious rant.
I've been chasing specs. For years. Better GPU. Better CPU. More RAM. Faster storage. The next upgrade, the next generation, the next big leap in pe
I know two people who built dedicated gaming setups that cost upwards of two thousand euros. Both of them primarily play DOTA. DOTA. The game from
The Apple Watch Ultra is genuinely impressive. It has an altimeter. A siren that can be heard from 600 feet. Dive modes. A titanium case. Battery th
I used to have a setup that looked impressive on paper. A full gaming rig with a tower the size of a small child. A monitor that could probably be s
On performing wellness for so long that the performance rearranges the furniture in your head. What the body reports when the narrative isn't the true one.
Longer conversations recorded from the in-between. No schedule. When there's something worth recording, it gets recorded.
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