Salil Patel

Salil Patel

I was a physician-scientist and am now the CEO/Co-Founder of TimeTrace Labs, a mathematics and artificial intelligence company in Bloomsbury, London.

This site collects essays, published writing, and reading.

Salil Patel

Selected writing

  1. What CarriesEssay · February 2026Creativity is recombination under pressure. The myth of genius exists to let the rest of us off the hook.
  2. What HoldsEssay · December 2025Newton did his best work in a plague year, in the ruins of an old order. The scientific method is what remained when custom fell away.
  3. Certainty in UncertaintyThe Orb · May 2020In politics, changing your mind is a sin. In science, it is the method.
All writing

Bookshelf

  1. Virginia Woolf — Mrs Dalloway, and the diaries
  2. Primo Levi — If This Is a Man / The Periodic Table
  3. Italo Calvino — Invisible Cities
  4. Jorge Luis Borges — Labyrinths
The full shelf