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2026-02-05 // EMR
This article describes 2 reasons I hadn’t heard before as to why someone might inaccurately describe what they’re doing. The first is work as prescribed - what have they been told should happen, the s...
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2026-02-05 // DESIGN
This article is a nice guide that’s quickly and easily digestible. It gives information on how to choose colours for documents and graphics so that they’re not too strong or overwhelming.
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
It’s interesting to consider that sometimes when something is working, that more of that thing MAY actually be better. There are many examples of when that’s not true, but sometimes we forget to check...
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
An interesting one - trusting people is good for business, but also leads to opportunity for fraud. Accepting that the best amount of fraud is not zero, because there’s an amount where the extra value...
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2026-02-05 // EMR
this post captures some of the complexity of making good software. Talks about bringing a graphic component to textual information, difficulties with discoverability, and how to make information dense...
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
A few entertaining short articles from Morgan Housel
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
the problem with mediocre success is it doesn’t tell us what to do next, and with our risk averse natures, sometimes we lean too hard into sticking with it.
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2026-02-05 // BUSINESS
Our estimates are often wildly wrong - using levels of magnitude gives us a level of precision closer to what we can actually achieve Also has a component for feasibility and team interest in completi...
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2026-02-05 // MANAGEMENT
This comprehensive article discusses the ways that Joel identifies good hires. It’s an old article, but I think it’s got some real merrit behind it - pick people smart, and who actually get stuff done...
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2026-02-05 // MEDICINE
N=4000 Older adults Mostly male Main outcome is readmission No improved BP control, and no improved cardiac outcomes (but possible too early to see results from this)
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2026-02-05 // BUSINESS
How can you have a good idea, a few people who will pay for your product, but still not have a viable business? Because so many things need to align for you to be successful - you can’t succeed if you...
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2026-02-05 // DESIGN
This fun (if slightly vitriolic) article proposes that issues arise when someone is solving the wrong problem. This fits with mismatched design I have seen. The author establishes two main causes of “...
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
An interesting article - it is maybe slightly too self agrandising, but I think overall it is a valuable piece of content. I think in medicine there is far too little “post mortems” or “pre-mortems”....
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2026-02-05 // EMR
The article and linked video are an interesting exploration on how why EMR futures may be in a modular design. Does a single large group making everything work better? It would seem to have some benef...
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2026-02-05 // DESIGN
This website breaks down how Nicholas Rougeux designed an incredibly beautiful page to view an old, scanned, mathematical textbook. It explains his typography choices, colour choices, layout and gener...
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2026-02-05 // MANAGEMENT
Elizabeth explores NASA’s change in mentality in the 80s vs 90s. NASA was very wary of missions, frozen by the need to control all variables. This appears to have led to incredibly expensive and incre...
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2026-02-05 // MEDICINE
As above
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
This article explores the nature of bank runs and fear as a product of group think. It notes the power of the group and the speed of changes when everyone is highly socially connected. This is similar...
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2026-02-05 // PSYCHOLOGY
I remember reading about “strong opinions, weakly held” which I followed for many years. It was developed by Paul Saffo at Standford, and the idea was that you should have concrete beliefs that you en...
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2026-02-05 // MANAGEMENT
when N approaches infinity, even really rare occurences occur with some regularity. The internet allows for scales that are so overwhelmingly larger than we are used to - as such, even incredibly rare...
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