PinnedLive for a Living — new bookI’m excited to share a new book — Live for a Living — that I co-wrote with my good friend and trusted colleague Paula Caliguiri, PhD. I’m thrilled that Live for a Living is now #1 New Release & Bestseller on Amazon. Available at these links on Amazon or Google…Career Planning1 min readCareer Planning1 min read
PinnedTours of Duty and Job Half-lifeAlliances, tours of duty and the half-life of a every job I spend a good chunk of my time coaching young people who are working at start-ups, either as founders or early employees. I love talking to people about their projects and their career development in context of the insane…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Nov 6Men’s Bowdoin Rugby Football 2023In sports there’s something undeniably magical about a triumphant comeback. I would like to congratulate the Bowdoin Rugby Men for tremendous Spring and Fall seasons in 2023. The graduated seniors and current undergrads have made all of us who have worn the black in the past incredibly proud. Not only…Rugby3 min readRugby3 min read
Sep 27Andy’s Suggested Reads as of 10.12.23Startup : The Four Steps to the Epiphany — Gary Blank Innovator’s’ Dilemma — Clayton Christensen Made to Stick — Chip & Dan Heath High-tech Ventures — Gordon Bell Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days — Jessica Livingston Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras Good to…Readinglist2 min readReadinglist2 min read
Aug 7Radiology,AI & Active LearningI’d like to follow up my previous post about telehealth, AI & dermatology with some quick thoughts about AI, radiology, active learning and the need for pre-competitive big data sets in radiology. This article in the NYT about a successful study in Sweden using AI for assisting radiologists in reading…Radiology4 min readRadiology4 min read
Aug 7Vector Databases — a list…Vector Databases are all the rage as useful for LLM/GenAI. Figured I’d publish a list that some of my friends have been building of the Vector Database options. Exceptional resource here as well. …Database4 min readDatabase4 min read
Published inAI Mind·Jul 25The Potential and Pitfalls of using a Large Language Model such as ChatGPT or GPT-4 as a Clinical AssistantFantastic work by the extended Pangea Data & academic team published here — key exerpts and tables below. It’s my belief that many of these types of experiments over the coming decade will help guide how we use AI in healthcare diagnostics. My instincts are telling me that we will…ChatGPT3 min readChatGPT3 min read
Jul 18“Two Letter Jobs”I love movies and I have this talk I give at B-Schools called “Full Contact Entrepreneurship” — I use a bunch of movie clips to help reinforce some of the key principles in the talk. One of my favorites is a clip from the 2000 movie “Traffic” — clip here…Jobs2 min readJobs2 min read
Jul 12Piction Health — role model for how AI will be used to help real human beings.There is so much hype around Generative AI these days — I can’t help but prepare myself for the proverbial “trough of disillusionment.” …Generative Ai Use Cases2 min readGenerative Ai Use Cases2 min read
Jun 7“One Size Does Not Fit All in Database Systems” — true in early 2000's — now we have the opposite problem….More than 20 years ago — my partner Mike Stonebraker (MIT)and his academic colleague Uğur Çetintemel(Brown) published a paper entitled ‘“One Size Does Not Fit All” an idea whose time has come and gone’. The abstract from their paper is below : “The last 25 years of commercial DBMS development…Database5 min readDatabase5 min read
