Ken Wake 3/16/26 Ken Wake 3/16/26

Composition

The night before the scan, I went looking for gym shorts. I could not find a pair that fit. Not because I had gained weight. Because I had lost it. The body had changed and I had not registered it.

Ken Wake 3/9/26 Ken Wake 3/9/26

Gradient

I did not plan to ride Cote de Pike. The estimate said twenty minutes. It took me forty-four. Here is what I paid attention to: heart rate. Not speed, not power, not the riders passing me.

Ken Wake 3/2/26 Ken Wake 3/2/26

Data

They drew fifteen vials on Tuesday. I sat in the chair and watched the tubes fill and thought about what I had written three weeks earlier. Fifteen vials of blood is doing something about it.

Ken Wake 2/9/26 Ken Wake 2/9/26

Governance

On Wednesday, the Office of Inspector General released the Medicare Advantage compliance guidance. By Thursday morning, I was revising my entire enterprise assurance plan. The question that kept forming was not about work.