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Part 2 is especially important if you’re building or extending functionality on top of a platform. An example might be the old swipe-to-touch keyboards on iOS. Once Apple built them natively, game over.

Comment · 5 years ago

That’s a great suggestion. Thanks for sharing.

Did you encounter problems with removing M for Measurable in that case?

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm not so sure either, but the Atlantic article referred to in the post is much better in my opinion, while covering the same topic. It includes more surveyed statistics about how public sentiment and wellbeing have changed over the decades. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...

Comment · 6 years ago

I’m fairly sure there is more to it from a technique perspective. Works like the Visuddhimagga and the Vimuttimagga explain the whole “focus on one thing / focus on breath” thing in extraordinary detail, and I consider these basically a forgotten technology. I have found these micro-steps to be really helpful in learning to meditate more deeply but are almost entirely ignored in the Western explanations and meditation apps.

That said, the traditional texts are still hard to parse. I’ve considered writing a manual-to-the-manual of sorts that explains the same concepts but in a modern way. I should mention that Leigh Brasington has some really awesome content out there (videos, books, and articles). I am not a master meditator, but if that sort of a thing exists, Leigh is.

Comment · 6 years ago

Learning about stone "industries" is probably one of my favorite wikipedia dives I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan

You can see in the sidebar that you can traverse the industries in time (Preceded by and Followed by links). Amazingly, these span _species_, since stone tools were in use before Homo sapiens were on the scene.

Comment · 7 years ago

I second this recommendation with a suggestion that has hugely helped me. I have more or less copied the approach to to-do lists described in that book into a Trello board and then – importantly – made it my home page on Chrome.

This accomplishes two things for me: 1) any time I open a new tab, I get a reminder of what needs to be done 2) adding an item or recording an idea to be processed later is just a cmd-t away.

This approach (combined with the Trello mobile app) has made the list so easy to maintain it's almost hard not to use it. YMMV, of course.

Comment · 8 years ago

There's a ~long history of people attempting to answer that question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

From the article, "Firms exist as an alternative system to the market-price mechanism when it is more efficient to produce in a non-market environment."

Comment · 8 years ago

It's not entirely true that extra tests are only an issue because they reveal untreated disease that insurers would rather not pay for.

There are non-trivial false positive rates for many diagnostics that can and do lead to unnecessary follow-up tests, procedures, and emotional distress.

For example, "About half of the women getting annual mammograms over a 10-year period will have a false-positive finding." [0]

The US Task Force for Preventative Services works to clarify when diagnostics are appropriate given rates of false positives and false negatives for many different preventative services. And there are many groups that work to establish and record evidence-based guidelines for escalations of care outside of preventative care as well. Intermountain is one example.

[0] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/screening-tests-...

Comment · 8 years ago

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Comment · 8 years ago

Do you have recommendations for any books or other resources that cover topics on healthcare quality measures? This is the first time I’ve heard of surrogate markers. I’ve been searching around for more info on the concept you’ve described but didn’t have a term for it.

Comment · 9 years ago

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