Essays on what most people walk past, and the notes: short, true, a bit rude about the system and a lot kinder about the people in it. Chapters of the memoir appear here first.
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 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.
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. The…
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 clarity…
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 describe…
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 doesn't…
There's a specific kind of clarity that comes from studying medicine from the outside. Dr. Margret Jaeger is a medical anthropologist, which means she…
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, survived it…
Yesterday, Spooniversity went live. Not with fanfare. Not with a countdown. Not with a launch post that performs excitement for an audience. I sent some…
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't get…
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 made…
Healthcare is drowning in communication training that doesn't work. Clinicians learn scripts. Patients learn how to advocate. And then they sit in a room…
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 diagnose…
Healthcare runs focus groups. Surveys. Patient advisory boards. And then it builds systems that ignore everything patients actually told them. This book…
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…
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 that…
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 signal. The…
"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 needed…
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…
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 2013…
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 that…
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 seen…
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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