I’ve been thinking: I wish I had a technical chief of staff. Someone who would timebox and go research ideas I have but can’t pursue myself or wouldn’t want to distract my team with. Often there’s high impact but low cost pursuits that nobody had time to experiment discovering.
The secret to scaling: designers who code, engineers who design, marketers who write SQL, PMs who write copy, customer support folks who open PRs, leaders who do support.
The more skills overlap, the less people need to meet, the more gets shipped.
A great example of borrowing innovation from one field for another. Doctors at a struggling children's hospital sent videos of their post-surgical hand-offs to Ferrari's F1 pit crew (see the GIF!) to improve. They reworked the process & reduced associated errors rates by 66%. 1/2
Today I learned about "minimal intervention of care" MIC and "minimal intervention needed fo change" MINC two established concepts in the healthcare world. Super similar to the "minimum viable product" MVP in the product world! Thanks @chrisprotos!
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Design Rule 86:
You’re a designer at an ad agency and asked as a favor to help some executive with PowerPoint. Here’s your trajectory:
1st time: You’re a friend
2nd time: You’re a team player
3rd time: You’re the agency’s PowerPointer
So, if asked, say this: “What is PowerPoint?”
It's not enough to solve 'right now' problems. We have to also use this time to ask what we really want our healthcare system to be? What values as a society do we want to prioritize? I see this pandemic as an optimistic opportunity to push 'reset' and make deep changes.
Morgan Stanley: “While we understand the desire for optimism, we also caution that the US outbreak is far from over. Recovering from this acute period in the outbreak is just the beginning and not the end. We believe the path to re-opening the economy is going to be long.”
The US may be short >300k ventilators because of #COVIDー19.
I believe the MIT Emergency Ventilator (E-Vent) is one of our best options for surge capacity ventilation.
Please share widely.
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