NONFICTION
Rules for Running Fast Labs
How you can make a magnetically controllable antibody in <1 year.
7 MIN2026
▸ BLOG
Library
Some notes, of varying quality, on biotech, startups, and the search for an inventor's Shangri-La.
NONFICTION
MagBodies: Combining the Best of Surgery and Drugs
A MagBody is an antibody that can be switched between a potent and an inert state by the placement of external magnets — combining the regional specificity of surgery with the molecular specificity of a drug.
7 MIN2026
BIOTECH
The Super Patient and Biotech's Structural Problem
Why miraculous one-off cures don't scale, and what that says about how biotech is built.
7 MIN2026
BIOTECH
“Bag of Tricks” meets “Menu of Problems”
Two sided networks, like invention, scales with the edges, not the nodes.
3 MIN2025
BIOTECH
Chinese Peptides Are Bad, Actually
Don't take drugs that no one understands
2 MIN2025
BIOTECH
Iteration Times Matter More Than Ever!
How to achieve faster iteration times in biotech?
7 MIN2025
AI
GPT-Oneida
Speculating about our LLM-enabled utopian future
5 MIN2025
BIOTECH
Notes on Henry Wallace
More biotechnologists should know about Henry Wallace.
3 MIN2024
AI
AI In 2023
Some AI predictions from 2023.
8 MIN2023
INSTITUTE DESIGN
Notes on the NIH
Some notes on the history of the NIH, and how it came to be the way it is today.
3 MIN2023
BIOTECH
Notes on 'Good Ideas are Hard to Find'
We're giving too much credit to the wrong people.
4 MIN2022
INSTITUTE DESIGN
Iteration Times & University R&D
Iteration times are too slow; research universities are broken.
8 MIN2022
INSTITUTE DESIGN
Notes on Collaborative Circles
Notes from a fantastic book on the formation and evolution of collaborative circles, and the roles that emerge within them.
17 MIN2022
NOTES
Notes on Hungry Ghosts
A book about addiction and homelessness.
4 MIN2023
