The Beastwood Files: July 2025

Starting this one off with Stuff I Read because Matthew Holt, a longtime observer of the healthcare technology landscape, encapsulated a lot of feelings I’ve had (but hadn’t put to paper) about last week’s interoperability glad-handing in DC. Signing a pledge to make tech tools talk to each other is admirable; doing so in the direct presence of men who are quite open about their disdain for proven medicine, healthcare’s safety net, medical research, and the needs of others is not – to say nothing of their very public targeting of the communities that all too often make computer engineering and healthcare delivery possible in the United States. For days, I’ve had a line from They Might Be Giants’ “Your Racist Friend” floating through my head: You can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding. Thank you, Matthew, for saying the quiet part out loud.

Stuff I Wrote

• MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter: How to break the ‘AI hype cycle’ and make good AI decisions for your organization
• MIT Sloan: 4 human financial services activities that AI can’t do
• MIT Sloan: Big-picture AI thinking: 3 webinars from MIT Sloan Management Review
• HealthTech Magazine: How Healthcare Organizations Can Pick the Right MSP for Their Security Needs
• Digital Health Insights: The tangled web of online providers, compounded GLP-1s, and care continuity
• Custom content for clients in digital health, technology infrastructure, mobile security, and more

Adventures in Fatherhood

• Our street’s in the process of being repaved, along with a stretch of the main road through town. We’re also getting new sidewalks. What this means: My camera roll is full of videos of construction vehicles hard at work to appease my son’s truck obsession.
• We recently invested in a foldable wagon. It’s bulkier than a stroller but apparently like 123% more fun. I lay even odds we actually use the stroller again.

Have had a busy few weeks on a big custom project for a client. Hoping to emerge from that soon. Happy August.