The person in charge of maintaining my work schedule (me) gave me too many longform assignments in late February and early March, while the person in charge of maintaining my running schedule (also me) insisted I remain on track for my marathon on Memorial Day weekend, so (in what is beginning to be a recurring pattern) this post is appearing during the second week of the month.
Stuff I Wrote
- MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter: Generative AI changes how employees spend their time, primarily by making it possible to spend more time on more interesting stuff
- Ideas Made to Matter: What 2 MIT experts are thinking about AI and work, noting that you still want subject matter experts in jobs such as flying an airplane
- HealthTech Magazine: OpenAI, HealthBench, Claude, and HIPAA Compliance: What Healthcare IT Needs to Know – or, a headline that pretty much says it all
- Digital Health Insights: Proposed rule would rid price transparency of cumbersome files and ghost rates, giving teeth to a law that’s been rarely enforced and isn’t really serving its purpose
- Digital Health Insights: How to make sure LLMs aren’t generating memorized outputs, which is a very obvious patient data privacy risk
- Custom content for clients in digital health, life sciences, healthcare operations, and enterprise security
Things I Did
- Succeeded in getting my mother’s taxes done at the Senior Center in town (thanks, AARP volunteers!)
- Went out of my way to participate in a social event (the annual party for the running club I recently joined)
- Made Snow Mountain in the front yard amid two significant storms with “help” from my young assistant
- Introduced my son to the concept of false spring during a 75-degree day in early March
Adventures in Fatherhood
- A recent obsession with couch-cushion forts evolved into destroying said forts. It was determined that the dinosaurs living in the neighborhood should be made aware of the demolition schedule and potential for loud noises. “Be a news reporter,” my son said to me, not realizing just how prepared I would be for the moment. (Lest you think I’m a trombone player in my spare time, I’ve probably worn that fedora a half dozen times since buying it on our honeymoon in 2019 after failing to pack a hat for part of our trip.)
- We all went cross country skiing for the first time (at Great Brook in Carlisle). My son took off on us as soon as he was strapped into his skis – which was great, except that neither of us were quite ready to chase him. (Not a bad problem to have, mind you.) We only went once this winter, but I’m pretty sure we’ll want to go again.
- We spent quite a bit of time watching the Olympics, in part because it was 15 degrees out the first weekend of the Games. Our favorite sports were biathlon, bobsled, and ski mountaineering. I did not subject my family to watching the 50-kilometer cross country ski races in their entirety. We also really, really got into the ads.
Happy early Pi Day, which is one of the most important days of the year in the Beastwood household (because of pie, not math).
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