Why dragons hoard gold
I mentioned to my brother the other day how I enjoyed his “What if”-questions. What if you could master kung fu like in The Matrix. Would you do it? That was a fun thought experiment. […]
What is agile?
What is agile? I’ve been giving this much thought. A company in the early stages of an “Agile transition” often encounters this question one way or another. Often it comes up in the form of […]
What’s your REAL story?
Today, we watched a documentary made by a well known YouTuber. This documentary didn’t deliver what it promised. The title was enticing, but in the end it displayed a lack of something I’ve felt very […]
Categories of distressing experience
Trauma is another word for “a deeply distressing or disturbing experience”. Trauma can be anything. Hearing about a loved one experiencing severe trauma can be traumatic. In fact, if you remove the “deeply” then we […]
The saga continues. Or maybe not..
Today, I received a reply from the hospital. This reply is in response to my question about the cyst diagnosis. Here’s what happened: On January 23rd 2019 an ultrasound was made by a resident obgyn, […]
What is empathy?
Empathy is a recurring theme in the things I like to think and talk about. Along with sympathy, emotion, mental health and the relationship between these concepts. I like to think that if I had […]
On privacy and having a say in what happens to you or your data. Or: If you didn’t object, you must therefore agree
I’ve had multiple medical misdiagnoses in my life, to the point where I can faithfully say I don’t think a doctor EVER made a correct diagnosis. I’ve had ear tubes surgery when I was a […]
Why you should trust your doctor
If you Google “mistrust doctors”, you find numerous websites expressing concern about the decline in patient trust in doctors. Two points I find interesting: Patients don’t trust science If a patient doesn’t trust their doctor […]
Tearing down the house – Scars and broken bones
When my brother was 7 or 8, and I was 10 or 11, we would bike home from school together. Bored with biking the same route every day, or maybe because we wanted to delay […]
A chart of my Myopia progression
My old optometrist sent me the receipts for all sets of glasses my parents ever bought there. So today, I charted it. Here’s my Myopia progression from age 5 to age 35 (now). If you […]