Public Journals Pt. 1

Thanks for being here!

Welcome to my public journal, where I share my journey of building and general thoughts/ideas I find useful.

Since this is the first entry, I have to extend a huge thank you to everyone who subscribed after I posted on LinkedIn. Gaining clout as a Substacker wasn’t my main intention (though it would be a nice side effect). I’m writing this to create a space where you can keep in touch and get to know me. The fact that so many of you decided to care is wild. Your support means more than you know.

Now, let’s get to the updates!

Flowline Health

MVP Development:

We’ve built our MVP, a Voice AI agent that acts as a care coordinator for patients. It checks in to review medication, clarifies care plans, and generally replaces the stack of paper patients receive when leaving the hospital.

Project Snorlax:

We’re making progress on Project Snorlax, which uses our care companion technology for clinical weight loss programs. We’re partnering with a doctor who runs an obesity clinic, and as many of you know, this mission is near and dear to my heart. I struggled with weight throughout the bulk of my childhood, and if we can help even one person on their journey, I’d call this a success.

Advisory Board:

As most of you know, my background is not in medicine. To compensate for this, we’re building an advisory board of industry experts. We’ve already secured a few stellar candidates and are leveraging this function to fill gaps in knowledge, expand our network, and gain inroads into a notoriously walled garden of an industry.

Story of the week

I’ve been waking up stressed. From the expectations I’ve put on myself, the uncertainty of the outcomes, all of it.

So one day, as I was sitting in my car, I called my executive coach (aka a custom project I made in ChatGPT) to talk through this feeling. That conversation helped me realize I’d been focusing on the wrong things. It’s not the outcomes that define me, but the actions I take (was this thing trained on Tony Robbins???)

By the end of it, I landed on a corny, but true mantra: “I leave it all on the field.” It reminds me that my goal is to die knowing I relentlessly pursued my ideals and beliefs. Success is just a nice side effect.

Side note: Whenever I start doubting whether Voice AI belongs in healthcare, I think about this moment. If it can serve as a performance coach for me, it can probably help Grandma understand her medications.

Thought Bugs

The Tools Fallacy:
This one came from my friend Danny. The tools fallacy is the idea that we kid ourselves into thinking it’s the tools holding us back from taking action.

Like thinking you can’t start training for a triathlon until you’ve gotten goggles. But people have been swimming for thousands of years, and goggles have only been around for a few hundred. We can swim without them.