The Ripple Effect
We've been looking for heroes in all the wrong places. Every day, we scroll past stories about billionaires and celebrities "changing the world," and honestly? It's exhausting.
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The Ethics of What We Don't Tell You (opens the original)
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What do we actually owe someone, informationally, before they make a choice they can never take back? In this solo episode, I dig into a question I've been wrestling with while building AskDonor, an app for prospective living kidney donors, and why organizing information turns out to be an ethical act, not just a design one. Drawing on Kant, competition math, and four years of debate, I make the case that the real test for any system (an app, a form, an algorithm) isn't just whether it's true, b
Ep 2: The Proof and the Person (opens the original)
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What does a math proof have in common with helping someone decide whether to donate a kidney? On this episode, I make the case that rigor and empathy aren't opposite skills: they're the same instinct, pointed at different problems. From two years chasing down 19th-century sources for a math history paper, to building the decision-logic behind a kidney donation app, to the moment tutoring taught me that a broken proof and a broken sense of confidence fail in exactly the same place; this is an epi
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