The Fundamentals of Fast Learning (Part 2)
For Part 1, click here. Create conditions for deep work Some argue that the ability to maintain deep focus is one of the most valuable skills in the modern day. Yet in an age of distractions, int...
Chris Lovejoy
About Me
Hi, I'm Chris Lovejoy 👋 I build AI products for complex, domain-specific verticals like healthcare and life sciences.
Currently: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.
Previously: founding team at Anterior (healthcare LLM startup backed by Sequoia/NEA), medical doctor, academic researcher, and ML engineer. (I describe that journey here).
I write about building vertical AI products that generate real-world value. I previously wrote a book about learning medicine and lectured on AI for healthcare.
Popular
- Own your vertical: A playbook for building a domain-native LLM application (100k+ views)
- Machine Learning for Healthcare video series (50k+ views)
- The Academic Knowledge Management (AKM) system that 10x'd my research productivity
- The Truth Is In The Title? Video Title Generation as a novel training objective for video summarisation
- Mission-Critical Evals at Scale: Learnings from 100,000 medical decisions
- AI versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies (1,000+ citations)
- I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time) (100k+ views)
Recent Essays
The Fundamentals of Fast Learning (Part 1)
Let me tell you about Balraj. He was a student in my year at university who absolutely loved medicine. He went to all the lectures and spent many late nights in the library studying. In his free t...
Medicine from Fifty Thousand Feet: Perspective, Targets and Limits
Welcome to medicine, a fascinating field with endless amounts of knowledge that can be obtained. Someone could, and many do, spend an entire life striving to learn as much medical knowledge as poss...
Mastering Rap by Dr Mandeep Singh
About 3 years ago, I developed a deep interest in learning to rap well. I emphasize the word ‘developed’ because up until this point, I was waiting to passively discover a passion which would someh...
Is medicine right for me?
Elements of medicine are fantastic but others can be upsetting or frustrating. At any point during your medical career, you may ask whether medicine is really the right career for you. You would ce...
Making the most of free moments
A system for regulating inputs and outputs Everything that we do (from a productive point of view) can be divided into input or output.  Input is receiving the ideas of others. Studying is input...
How To Learn Faster In Six Steps
The amount that you learn largely determines the quality of life that you live. I am not talking about ‘learning’ in a purely academic sense, or the learning of purely factual information, but rat...