look at the chargemaster

I was recently trying to understand why the asking cost on an insurance claim for a set of hand and wrist xrays, was quite high. The provider put this on two associated bills , and the amounts looked quite steep also per my look at https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/ , according to the lookup for the two Current Procedural Terminology or CPT codes, on the invoices. One cool thing though is, that recently I looked at the provider’s page here,...

July 14, 2025 · (updated July 21, 2025) · 1 min · 138 words · Michal Piekarczyk

a life worth underthinking?

Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You from maybe over 10 years now, conveyed that Steve Jobs was using hindsight in recommending you to follow your passion. Don’t be a firefighter, astronaut or ballerina. Just do what let’s you put food on the table. Cal’s later work is on doing reducing distractions and slowing down to meet your aims; less is more. Did Cal end up asking you to focus after all?...

June 29, 2025 · (updated July 3, 2025) · 2 min · 401 words · Michal Piekarczyk

A medical anecdote

DRAFT… Recently I went on a trip, to Kraków, where during the trip I got to try out the medical system and got to compare this with an experience in the U.S. too. In Kraków, I went on a traditional raft during the trip and prior to that, in the U.S. I was attempting to understand some long standing pain in my wrists. One of the things to do in the Polish countryside is to raft with the local Gorals1 who live in the forest areas, near the Poland/ Slovak border....

June 26, 2025 · (updated July 5, 2025) · 13 min · 2685 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Agile mmkay

Came across Uncle Bob Martin’s Clean Agile talk1, putting words to paper on it… DRAFT so far It seems a lot of the original folks from the original Agile Manifesto are speaking up about how “the industry " got it all wrong. Dave Thomas emphasizes, it’s a adjective not a noun. Martin Fowler, emphasizes that SAFE is Shitty Agile for Enterprises. I came across a presentation from Robert Martin introing his book Clean Agile recently too....

June 4, 2025 · (updated August 4, 2025) · 4 min · 721 words · Michal Piekarczyk

super scripts

adapting super script references I was mentioning in another post1 about switching from hyperlinks to citation style links thanks to seeing Doug Slater’s2 use of this technique. I am sure I have seen it elsewhere too but I forget. how to use the new technique An inline reference is simply “some text<sup>[1](#references)</sup>”, which has a corresponding 1. blahblah at the references at the end To make sure hugo allows the custom <sup> html you need in your config....

May 31, 2025 · (updated June 2, 2025) · 1 min · 161 words · Michal Piekarczyk