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Ethics Is What Gets You Fired
Stop searching for an ethical AI CEO. The job is impossible. The problem isn't a lack of individual virtue, but a system that makes virtue a liability.
Sep 13
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Kanav Jain
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Saving Lives, Sinking Shares: the Gilead Effect
Ten years ago, Gilead Sciences did what modern medicine says it exists to do: it cured a disease.
Jul 16
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Kanav Jain
On “Clinician Resistance” in Healthcare Tech
It’s the diagnosis pulled out whenever a doctor or nurse pushes back on some new system, tool, or “transformation.” To outsiders, it sounds neutral—a…
Jul 14
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Kanav Jain
The Myth of Moral Decay
How American Policy Manufactures Bystander Inaction
Jul 9
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Kanav Jain
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Beyond Deservingness
There’s a peculiar contradiction at the heart of modern public policy: Propose universal provision—unconditional meals, healthcare, housing, or cash—and…
Jul 1
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Kanav Jain
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Racism as a Business Model
How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine
Jun 13
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Kanav Jain
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Universality Disincentivizes Surveillance
In health insurance, credit, and employment, private actors mine ZIP codes, prescription histories, résumé gaps, and spending habits to assign risk and…
Jun 2
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Kanav Jain
2
Edge-Case Medicine: How Profit Logic Treats Life as Waste
Capitalism doesn’t just cut corners—it cuts people out.
May 4
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Kanav Jain
1
What We Built, and Why We Let Go
In August 2024, we decided to end Andwise, with no formal press release, no dramatic pivot tweets—just a resolve to shut it down before becoming…
Apr 12
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Kanav Jain
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Emergent Universality vs Top-Down Healthcare
While conventional thinking holds that only big bureaucracies can deliver universal healthcare, anarchist practices illustrate a very different path…
Apr 6
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Kanav Jain
Some pain will, of course, be there.
You arrive at the hospital from the airport, taking MARTA straight to Northside.
Apr 5
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Kanav Jain
"Why Can’t They Just Die Already?"
Why Waiting for Boomers to Disappear Won’t Save Us
Apr 4
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Kanav Jain
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