Why write?

Why write here?

I have the good fortune to choose how I want to spend my time, which I will use to spend more time thinking, writing, and reading. I have had this wordpress domain purchased and static for a number of years. It feels like the right time to focus on capturing thoughts in a more thoughtful and nuanced way. One goal for me is to spend time writing longer form pieces which can serve the dual tasks of documenting what I am learning and focusing on, and also to help, in a more active way, to organize thoughts that are more complex or strategic.

I also follow a number of sites which are essentially daily journals of discovery, sites where the reader can follow the author in their path of discovery of content, research, and miscellaneous items of interest. Specific touchstones in this area are are Simon Willamson’s blog(link), Om.co, and a number of substack sites as well.

Twitter once served this function: bringing together personalized content that was sufficiently curated that I felt in touch with my interests, but I have found it hard to find the content I like in medical informatics, the digital health industry, and my other interests lately: AI in medicine, product development, use of FHIR, quality measurement for clinical care, new biologics, the impressive trajectory of GLP-1s, and what is happening in public health, misinformation, and vaccine usage.

My secondary goal here will be to aggregate content from across areas of interest with not much comment, but a chance to bring great sources together.