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the shelf

The longer arguments.

pull one out

My actual
bookshelf.

Not metaphorical — these are the books, in the order they'd sit on a real shelf in my room.

The Slow Diagnosis
Second Opinion
Notes from the OR
Ask Before You're Ready
Systems, Not Slides
The Slow
Diagnosis
Tapan Shah
out now
The Slow Diagnosis

On the twenty years it took me to notice that the best medicine and the best management ask the exact same first question — and why almost nobody asks it fast enough.

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Second
Opinion
Tapan Shah
writing now
Second Opinion

A working title for the book I'm building from the boardroom side of medicine — what happens when the person disagreeing with you outranks you.

coming 2027 get notified
Ask Before
You're Ready
Tapan Shah
early draft
Ask Before You're Ready

Short essays on the questions I asked before I had any right to — in an OR, in a hospital board meeting, in a system built for a billion people.

TBD get notified

what I'm reading

Not mine —
just on the nightstand.

A running, honest list. Updated whenever I actually finish something, not on a schedule.

📖 Being Mortal Atul Gawande rereading the last chapter, slowly
🔖 Thinking in Systems Donella Meadows bookmarked at the feedback loops chapter
The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande finished, stealing the framing for a talk
📖 Range David Epstein on chapter four, unconvinced so far

Every book funds the flip side. Proceeds from anything on this shelf split three ways: parents rebuilding a livelihood, cancer research, and Gen Z founders.

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No schedule, no spam — just a note the day something new lands on the shelf.

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That's the whole philosophy of this place, honestly — poke around, try the thing nobody tells you to try.