Archive - TJCX

AI traps: Lessons from launching Webflow's AI Assistant

Shipping useful AI products requires avoiding constant temptation.

Dec 9, 2024

March 2023

Building a physician reference for 2023

What would an "up-to-date" version of UpToDate look like?

Mar 8, 2023

December 2022

Forcing AI to answer medical questions accurately

Using a pile of Javascript to make GPT-3.5 do something useful.

Dec 13, 2022

October 2022

Consumer-focused health websites are terrible—but the tide is changing

Secular trends in publishing models, open access research, and AI are finally making it feasible to give patients the health information they need.

Oct 28, 2022

August 2022

Why is WebMD so awful?

And what would a "good" WebMD look like?

Aug 26, 2022

April 2022

Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments

Online health information is terrible. How can we fix it?

Apr 26, 2022

February 2022

Medical communication is bad—how do we fix it?

A jeremiad against current online health information and a proposal for fixing it

Feb 3, 2022

March 2021

Tracking the front page of the New York Times

Part 2 of my New York Times investigation, where I take a close look at what kinds of articles make it to the front page.

Mar 23, 2021

How the New York Times A/B tests their headlines

Part 1 of a series on the New York Times, in which I take a close look at how (and when) the New York Times tests multiple headlines for a single…

Mar 10, 2021

February 2020

Activities with (positive) asymmetric returns

Improve your life by doing things with convex payoffs

Feb 1, 2020

January 2020

How to read self-help

Which self-help is worth reading, and how to get the most from it

Jan 25, 2020

The perils of constant feedback

When to accept criticism and when to ignore it

Jan 18, 2020

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