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scifi sub-genre that see Optimistic future driven by Solar Energy (more)

Cedric Chin: The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail. Let me tell you a startup horror story. If you’ve been around startups for long enough, you’re likely to recognise this narrative (more)

Dorian Taylor: Motivation & Rationale. (for Summer of Protocols) The problem that I'm trying to solve—or at least contribute in some small way to a solution—has been notoriously hard to articulate... (more)

Cedric Chin: Speedrunning the Skill of Demand. This is Part 1 in a series of essays about Customer Demand. Skill at understanding demand is what underpins the domain of marketing, sales, and product. There’s an old Peter Drucker saying that goes “the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer” (Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business) (more)

Ash Maurya: What is a Job-To-Be-Done (JTBD) – Love the Problem. Even after all this research, two things continue to bother me (more)

One doctor’s campaign to stop a covid-19 vaccine being rushed through before Election Day. Topol, who works at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and is one of the country’s most prominent doctors, aimed to prevent Trump from greenlighting a vaccine before scientists could prove it to be safe and effective. To Topol, developing an effective vaccine against covid-19 is “the biggest event in our generation” and one that should be evaluated on the basis of scientific data, not political implications. (more)

Book (2004) by Jane Jacobs ISBN:1400062322 (more)

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.

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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