Sam Cornell

Writing

Essays on healthcare, artificial intelligence, leadership, institutions, travel, and whatever else I’m trying to understand. The goal is one thoughtful piece a month, for a long time. No engagement farming, just a record of thinking, kept honestly.


An independent, records-based review of how automated license plate reader systems are procured, governed, and overseen by Northern Florida law enforcement, built entirely from public records, vendor documents, and Florida statutes. Volume I covers the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office; a living document, revised as agencies produce records.

July 2026 · 31-page report

A chartered jet, an ambulance running lights through a strange city, four surgical teams around one table, and a cooler that closes with a click. What an organ recovery flight actually feels like from the inside.

July 2026

Five years and 850 procedures inside one of medicine’s least visible, least forgiving logistics networks, and what it teaches about designing for the worst night, not the average one.

July 2026

On a February evening in Greenland, three problems arrived at once. A short essay about what you can control, and what you build afterward.

July 2026

Singapore and Estonia are running two different experiments in the same hypothesis: that AI lets disciplined small states convert competence into global influence. An analytical piece with key judgments, case studies, and charts.

February 2026

Tunisia and Myanmar suggest social media is not a root cause of instability, it is a force multiplier that accelerates whatever weaknesses already exist. An open-source analysis.

February 2026

A childhood gift, a box of Legos, and the case that education is exposure, inside classrooms and far beyond them.

February 2026


Coming: essays on research incentives and AI operations, the three-second pause, and why some institutions adapt while others stagnate.