by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
Although I have plenty of thoughts, I am no leader. Part of the reason is definitional. I don’t have any significant community of followers, therefore I can’t be a leader. However, another part of this is intentional. I don’t want to be a leader because I...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals, Photography, Writing
For any projects which I intend to pursue seriously, I start off with pen and paper, writing out my goals. For example, I am taking my eighth or ninth photography course, and here are the goals which I just posted to my Flickr group: Would love to hear other...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Big Data
Attending a recent online Health Chat by one of the FAANG companies, a software developer referred to a patient’s “digital phenotype”. A phenotype is the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Habit, Writing
For me, the most valuable real estate on my iMac is the upper-left corner of my screen. Why? Because it is a “hot corner” : A digital action initiated by cursor placement in any of the screen corners through the iOS Screensaver app, which in the case of my...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
When I do serious time blocks of writing, I use a modification of the Pomodoro Technique. The classic Pomodoro Technique is a writing system in which you set a physical timer for 25 minutes in which you do a focused burst of writing, followed by a 3-5 minute break,...
