Eric Jeffrey Topol (born June 26, 1954)[1] is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute,[2] a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He has published four bestseller books on the future of medicine:[3] The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019), and Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity (2025). He was commissioned by the UK from 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Topol (more)

In economics, Jevons paradox is a paradox about resource usage. It is also called Jevons effect, after William Stanley Jevons who first observed it in 1865. Jevons observed that the steam engine James Watt had developed was much more efficient that the earlier model of Thomas Newcomen. Despite this, the use of coal in England increased. The improvements James Watt had introduced made coal a cheap source of energy. As a consequence, Watt's steam engine was more popular, and its use was more widespread. So even though each steam engine used less coal, the demand for coal increased, as there were more steam engines. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Steve Yegge thinks he knows what the Next Big Programming Language will be. But he won't name it, just gives some requirements. In the comments, lots of people think it's JavaScript. (more)

Gina Trapani of Postlight: Ten Technologies to Know in 2020. Here are 10 of the technologies, terms, and tools to know about in 2020. (more)

Cedric Chin: Much Ado About The OODA Loop. Any discussion about fast adaptation in response to uncertainty should probably begin with John Boyd and the OODA Loop. (more)

a Jobs to be Done guy https://jtbd.info/ (more)

Clayton Christensen theory that helps innovators understand how and why people make decisions. (more)

Cedric Chin starts a Series on Understanding Customer Demand. Skill at understanding customer demand is the skill that underpins the domain of marketing, sales, and product. (more)

new-Product Development process associated with The Heart of Innovation.

stage magic, or magick, or Magic, The Gathering (more)

cutting-edge HealthCare provider system (more)

Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.[4] It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvard University, and houses the world's largest hospital-based research program with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021.[5] It is the third-oldest general hospital in the United States with a patient capacity of 999 beds.[6] Along with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General is a founding member of Mass General Brigham, formerly known as Partners HealthCare, the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Hospital

Rochelle Paula Walensky (née Bersoff; born April 5, 1969) is an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.[1] Prior to her appointment at the CDC, she was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General (Mass General) Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Walensky is an expert on HIV/AIDS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Walensky

Cory Doctorow: The health industry’s invisible hand is a fist. The US has the rich world's most expensive health care system, and that system delivers the worst health outcomes of any country in the rich world. Also, the US is unique in relying on market forces as the primary regulator of its health care system. All of these facts are related! (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education Roundup #7 (more)

Cedric Chin cluster on the Market. ‘Market’ is a shorthand for ‘factors influencing the market’, which is one of the three legs of triad mental model of business expertise. (more)

the source of authentic demand: when someone is put in a situation and they cannot not buy (or use) the solution - from The Heart of Innovation

How ComplexSystems Fail, by Richard Cook https://how.complexsystems.fail/

GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code.[1] Currently available by subscription to individual developers, the tool was first announced by GitHub on 29 June 2021, and works best for users coding in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot Coding Assistant? (more)

Amusing interview with Nassim Taleb. (more)