A method to improve essays and other projects.

The power of online companies and communities makes it automatically easy to semi-accomodate a global community. Going fully global takes intentionality, and empathy.

A manifesto on the future of healthcare. A guiding document on how I think about healthcare transformation, and how I worked to get my team onboard.

Effective Altruism can drive scarce capital towards the simplest and cheapest options, but miss the essential systems. My long take on a conflicted relationship with the movement.

A colorful walk through a growing city, and a reflection on empty neighborhoods.

Your 12 Favorite Problems live on the intellectual back-burner: you are scavenging the world looking for ideas that fit the things you wonder most about.

Walking through the World Expo can give us a sense of our identity as global citizens, a chance to pause and appreciate culture and beauty and a space to actively play and explore.

The evidence is piling up that health benefits are positively correlated with urban design that takes into account green and blue spaces, play, tree cover, and yes, aesthetics. Should we have a right to live somewhere beautiful?

Is “Vitals” the right framework to measure the health of a place? Here is my current thinking on why the answer is “yes.”

2021 was one of the most significant years for me in a long time. After nine years, I moved out of Kenya, and left the business that I built there in someone else’s hands. In this review I’m reflecting on what I learned from my professional and personal transitions.

If our attention is our most precious resource, here were some investments that I made last year that really paid off.

Vulnerability, light but regular contact and shared goals and values are at least the start of a good recipe for building online friendships.