About Me

Note: We've all been using LLMs for years now, so I had an interesting idea: if you're interested in reading what ChatGPT knows about me you can read that here verbatim.

Some see me as a medical student, some as an entrepreneur, but most simply see me as someone who has way too much going on.

They are all right, except for the last one.

My through-line is fairly straightforward: be curious, do hard things, and trust myself. In practice, this puts me in phases of intense experimentation at times, and intense action during other times.

Time, for me, is the ultimate resource, and philosophy is the calculus which underpins how I spend it. I discover my philosophy through writing. For example, I have learned that self-control is the only true control, and that leadership means serving without the pursuit of unanimity.

I do not claim perfection, and I do not claim originality. What I claim is intent: the intent to live deliberately, to resist complacency, and to lead until I no longer need to.

Things I have built:

Note: These were all darts on the board to help me determine what problem I want to solve for the next 10 years. It is also largely the reason I decided to go to medical school and become a doctor. Despite moderate success in some of these, I sought domain-expertise in a more "real problem", and the prospect of fixing U.S. healthcare with market solutions and better incentive design was a tantalizing prospect.

My through line here is also simple: healthcare should feel like hospitality.

These darts-on-board allowed me to begin medical school far from the mentally of a starry-eyed student, and closer to that of an Auditor. This made the prospect of spending 10 years in medical education a unique opportunity to further concentrate my skill-set and become an n = 1.

JANUS Marketing:
A creative marketing agency specializing in using video to help SaaS, DTC, and professional service businesses show their market why they're unique.
Brask Group
A community for young like-minded builders and do-ers of the world
AlmostMed
Get matched and mentored by someone Just One Step Ahead i.e. a premed gets matched to a med student, med student to a resident & resident to an attending.
MedAtlas
An all-in-one platform for premeds, medical students, residents, and attendings to help with everything from med school applications to negotiating your first raise as an attending.
ClaimGuard:
Like Grammarly but for Hospital Billing & Claims departments to catch and fix medical coding errors before they hit the clearinghouse, reducing preventable-billing errors by up to 40%.
Pomodoro Timer:
A pomodoro timer with streaks, neural background music, and night mode. Pre-set to 50:10 split because that's what I've found to be best for deep, focused work.
Machine Learning Research Assistant Tool:
I made a self-serve Machine Learning dashboard that walks anyone through the process of running XGBoost and other models to do predictive analysis of large healthcare datasets. SHAP analysis is included for improved clinical interpretability. I then used my own tool to write and publish this paper to pre-print on MedArxiv, one of the first to apply machine learning to publicly available SPARCS data to predict APR-DRG Risk of Mortality in diabetic inpatients.
CareGuided.com:
I made CareGuided as a way for doctors & residents to rapidly assess a patient's health literacy so as to help inform the provider how to best communicate with the patient, helping ensure the patient can walk away feeling confident in their health plan.
RVU Lookup Tool:
I made a rapid search tool to help doctors immediately see the RVU breakdown for any given procedural code. I made this during class when a professor mentioned how much of a pain it was to have to go through hundreds of pages of the non-searchable PDF provided by CMS.
AntiBalance:
I made this website to embody my life philosophy of anti-balance i.e. the commitment to be extreme, look for asymmetries, and reject work life balance for a shot at meaningfully improving something in the world.
Endless Idea Generator:
I made this tool to help me come up with headlines for various types of online content. It is inspried by Dickie Bush and Nicholas' Cole's Ship 30 course and their many writings on succesful, effective online writing.
The Bara Society:
Inspired by Bejamin Franklin's Junto, I wanted to make an invite-only private society for the most ambitious people I know who are not afraid to challenge norms and push for bettering their society.
Brask Group Internship:
Under Brask Group, I offered a cohort of highschool students interested in Software Engineering a summer internship. The internship was an 8 week program with 10 hours per week, and had the students learn basic HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, & Git. Each of these were associated with a tangible real world project which they deployed to their own GitHub accounts. This was one of the student's final project: a wikipedia scraper.
ReviewLoopMD:
I noticed that many doctors often had poor reviews for unfair reasons and these were seriously hurting their ability to attract new patients to their practice. I realized that surely there are patients who have a good experience but must not be leaving reviews in the same frequency as those with bad experiences. As such this felt like a survivorship bias issue. I made ReviewLoopMD as a way to help address this. With ReviewLoopMD doctors can import a CSV list of their patients, and then send out a link via email or SMS to each patient directly asking for a review.
DoneIt!:
I made Done It! as a task manager with the unique feature of helping you turn big any overwhelming tasks into immediately actionable sub-tasks at the click of a single button.
Course Platform:
A platform for creators and professionals to easily create & publish e-learning courses. Fully integrated payment processing.
RaiseReady:
A platform to help employees land higher salaries by practicing their negotiation skills.
Sitr:
An event management platform with airplane-like seating charts and integrated CRM functionality to make your events come to life, quickly and memorably.
UConn Med Formal Management Platform:
When our school's Social Chairs seemed overwhelmed with managing event seating, I decided to make them a custom event management platform tailored to their needs. It included full RSVP management, user seat selection, dietary preferences, user management, and analytics.
Mr. Jones:
A language learning app that lives in iMessage and uses Zipf's law to teach learners the most common words of the target language.

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