Creativity Unleashed: How Producing Memes Can Enhance Your Retirement In early retirement, I prioritize creativity. I’ve got half my life to live without working for money, and creativity always takes on new forms of expression. For 2025, my creative ideas […]
Navigating the Modern Healthcare Landscape Physicians face unique challenges as employees of large hospital systems and healthcare organizations in today’s healthcare environment. While medicine remains a noble calling, the business aspects of healthcare can often overshadow the core mission of […]
2025: My Only Worry is that I have no Worries As we close 2024 and are halfway to 2030, I have no worries about next year. My only worry about 2025 is that I have no worries. Bird Flu There […]
Why H5 Bird Flu is Not the Next Pandemic As a retired infectious diseases physician enjoying the fruits of financial independence, I can tell you now that the H5N1 bird flu will not be the next pandemic. The […]
Nothing “To Do” in Retirement for 10 Days I have ten whole days coming up to myself. No commitments. Nothing “to do.” Retirement involves doing less, but what about big chunks of time you never had working 80-hour weeks? […]
Should I Finish This Course of Antibiotics? You still occasionally see a meme describing the need to finish the course of antibiotics your doctor prescribes, or you will cause antimicrobial resistance. The opposite is true. Since 30% of outpatient […]
Blog Topics for 2025 Instead of making New Year’s resolutions in 2025 (which I don’t do, so I don’t know if I will succeed), I will write a list of 10 blog topics for 2025 and my thoughts about […]
New ETFs Constructed for the FIRE Movement If you have 20 years until retirement, sure, VTI and chill. But as you get closer to your fire goals, what about a more permanent portfolio style (also known as risk parity)? […]
Free Apps that I Love: Perplexity and Polymarket There is no issue that I don’t run by both Perplexity and Polymarket these days. Here are some examples. Pandemics and Percent of Population Dead I have started to return […]