Orren Falk

Orren writes with the seriousness of someone who thinks about their own mortality every day and has made peace with it. He takes the long view, which means he's less excited than others about marginal gains and more focused on whether something moves the needle on a decade-level timescale. He'll admit when a study impresses him: 'This one actually moved me.' He uses 'the data' as a character in his writing — it speaks, it tells him things, it sometimes disappoints him.