Building your AI tribe: who to add, what to give them, how to start

Practical. No hype. The most enjoyable thing I’ve built with AI this year has nothing to do with surgery. It’s a debate council — six historical figures convened around a table to argue any question I throw at them. Socrates asks questions that destabilise everyone else’s answers. Marcus Aurelius finds equanimity in the cosmic indifference … Read more

Setting up Claude properly: a 15-minute guide for surgeons

Practical. No hype. Fifteen minutes. That’s genuinely all it takes to go from an account that produces generic answers to a setup that knows your role, your writing style, your patients, and how you prefer to work. Most people never do this. Most people get generic answers. This post is the setup guide. Do this … Read more

How to get AI to remember things

Practical. No hype. You spend twenty minutes giving Claude the context it needs — your role, your department, what you’re working on, how you prefer to communicate. It gives you exactly what you need. You close the tab. Next time you open it, the slate is blank. Claude knows nothing about you. You start again. … Read more