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Essays on longevity, AI in medicine, the philosophy of biology, and the things I'm building. Updated whenever I have something worth saying.
Aging as the dissolution of self-referential chromatin loops.
A sketch for a perspective paper. What if the Gladyshev & Yücel four-pillar framework, Hofstadter's strange loops, autopoiesis, and the Buddhist view of anatta are all pointing at the same thing — and aging is what happens when the self-reference runs down?
Teaching AI in Medicine at MedUni Wien: what worked, what didn't.
Notes from helping build and run a brand-new curriculum. Clinicians don't need to become ML engineers — but they do need to know where the models lie, and why.
Reading Hofstadter through a biologist's eyes.
I Am a Strange Loop, again. This time with a decade of wet-lab intuition behind my eyes. Notes on what a chromatin biologist hears when he reads a philosopher.
Wiring two ecosystems: the case for Telos Circle.
Europe has the talent. The US has the velocity. Between them sits an expensive ocean and a taller psychological one. Here's what I've been building to bridge both.
Five days of prep for Austria's largest hackathon.
A field report on committing before you're ready. Why "I don't know how" is a poor reason not to try, and a short list of mistakes I'll never make again.
Notes from the Longevity Biotech Fellowship, Berkeley.
A vague obsession became a concrete trajectory. What I learned, who I met, and why I'm walking toward SF.
Three years of forecasting AI timelines — what I got wrong.
An honest look back at my predictions. Turns out forecasting a moving frontier is harder than forecasting a cell. Who knew.
Notes from a CAR-T wet lab: what cells taught me about intelligence.
A T-cell is a decision-maker with a few thousand genes and no central processor. Three years at the bench, and some surprisingly deep lessons about what intelligence actually is.
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