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What I Got Wrong
Reflections at the halfway point of medical school
May 10
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Ali Mirza
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April 2026
Pendulums run the world
There’s a tension I keep coming back to.
Apr 21
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Ali Mirza
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When does technology kill a profession?
Three conditions that decide everything
Apr 1
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Ali Mirza
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March 2026
Visibility Is Not the Same Thing as Value
My great-great-great-grandfather was Asaf ud-Daulah, Nawab of Oudh.
Mar 5
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Ali Mirza
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January 2026
Statistical Significance Is Not What You Think It Means
There’s a moment in my first year of medical school where I stopped taking notes mid-lecture.
Jan 25
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Ali Mirza
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December 2025
Why I Renamed This Newsletter 'Side Effects'
I’m renaming “Thinking in Public” to “Side Effects.”
Dec 27, 2025
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Ali Mirza
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An Honest Accounting: What I Failed at This Year, and the Bets I'm Still Making
Note: this piece was refined with AI to cut out redundancies and save you time as a reader.
Dec 25, 2025
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Ali Mirza
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The More You Dissect a Text, the Less You Understand It
The scalpel approach to textual analysis—examining every word, defining every term, parsing every clause—is mathematically guaranteed to produce…
Dec 6, 2025
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Ali Mirza
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Medicine Has a Problem With Information. Here's Why That's Bad for Patients.
Some good reasons, some bad…
Dec 6, 2025
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Ali Mirza
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November 2025
Every Small Decision Is a Vote for Who You're Becoming
I had just come from a cardiologist appointment.
Nov 26, 2025
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October 2025
The Lies We Believe About Ourselves (And How to Catch Them)
N.b.
Oct 28, 2025
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Ali Mirza
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September 2025
Your Friends Set Your Standard for Normal
In August 2023, I was staring at a half-finished spreadsheet on my laptop.
Sep 28, 2025
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Ali Mirza
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