Writing

Nonfiction

I write nonfiction to think through problems that are too large and too consequential for a strategy document. Both books emerge from the same three decades of building at the science-clinic interface: one looks back at what it takes to found a diagnostics company, the other looks forward at what it will take to build an entire sector.

Fiction

I write fiction to explore ideas that sit just beyond the reach of science. My professional life is shaped by evidence, data and the disciplines of precision medicine, yet many of the questions that interest me most, about transformation, belief, consequence and possibility, cannot be answered in a laboratory or an ecosystem strategy document. Stories allow me to examine the spaces where technology meets human uncertainty, where knowledge shifts faster than culture or people adapt, and where ambition defies our ability to predict impact.

Fiction gives me the freedom to test the boundaries of what we understand, to imagine how people and societies respond when confronted with the unfamiliar or the inevitable, and to trace the moral and emotional contours that lie beneath scientific progress. It is a way of thinking in another mode: speculative rather than analytical, but driven by the same curiosity about how the future is built, and what it may cost.

I have always loved reading, and in writing I stumbled on a similar but more visceral form of discovery. Characters acquire a life of their own; they make choices you did not expect and take the story in directions you had not planned. It feels like reading from the inside, and it is that sense of revelation, rather than control, that keeps me returning to fiction.