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No One Cares About Software Quality
A friend of mine recently felt dizzy and went to a US urgent care facility for blood tests. They were inconclusive and so he was sent to the nearby emergency room, which proceeded to do the same blood tests over again, because they were not able to access the urgent care facility's test results in their computer system. This was just plain wasted w... See more
Ben Goertzel • We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
Over the past several years, in an attempt to make healthcare more efficient, various “process improvements” (excessive documentation, regulations, and a variety of other hoops and ladders) have replaced time spent with patients.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
That’s because first computer culture, then our broader culture, has been colonized by people for whom the only truth is the power of the computer. For them there is no mystery that can’t be solved with computers, eventually. There is nothing to say except that everything will someday be quantifiable and calculable, and that the best course of acti... See more
E.W. Niedermeyer • Why Is Writing Hard?
Liberal use of "MVP" or "it's just an experiment". Does the team use those terms to skirt around typical quality standards and ship something subpar? Does everything worked on, even experiments, demand the same care as a more mainstream release that goes out to all users?