I should have loved biology
"In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was."
stephancill via interface.social
https://ethconfig.eth.limo is a simple text record service for ethereum addresses. any ethereum address can set key value pairs on this contract to be looked up by anyone else
stephancill.eth keeps building cool shit
Ferrari’s Formula One Handovers And Handover From Surgery To Intensive Care
"Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) benchmarked its handoff from cardiac surgery to the intensive care unit against pit stop techniques of the Ferrari Formula One race car team.Process improvements resulted in increased patient safety and decreased error rates."
"The rating of excellent is the highest possible rating given by the independent Healthcare Commission. Only six trusts out of 157 in the United Kingdom received this rating with GOSH being one"
"So many things can go wrong, and sometimes do, as the tiny vulnerable person is transferred from the surgery to intensive care. Moving the little body from one bed to another is only one part of the complex set of movements that must take place. Wires, equipment, people, and information move about in an intricate dance where a misstep can place the child in mor-tal danger. Within 15 minutes all the technology and support systems, including ventilation, two to four monitoring lines, mul- tiple vasodilators, and inotropes, are transferred two times: going from operating theatre system to portable equipment to intensive care systems."
"the pit stop team completes the complex task of changing tires and fueling the car in about seven seconds. The doctors saw this as analogous to the team effort of surgeons, anesthetist, and ICU staff to transfer the patient, equip- ment, and information safely and quickly from the operating room to ICU."
"Following the trip to Italy, the GOSH team videotaped the handover in the surgery unit and sent it to be reviewed by the Formula One team. The GOSH research team and observers from the Formula One team analyzed the film and noted a great difference in the process map (flowchart)."
"Under the new handover process, the anesthetist was given overall responsibility for coordinating the team until it was transferred to the intensivist at the termination of the handover. These same two individuals were charged with the responsibil- ity of periodically stepping back to look at the big picture and to make safety checks of the handover."
ownership and detachment see Jocko Willink
The Antilibrary: The Hidden Value of Unread Books
"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.Umberto Eco"
"A good library is filled with mostly unread books. That’s the point."
"My library serves as a daily reminder of what I don’t know."
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
"Christopher Alexander spent his career exploring why some built environments deaden us, while others leave us feeling more human, more at home in the world. His work centered around the "quality without a name," this intuitive knowing that a place or an architectural element is in tune with life. By learning to recognize this quality, he argued, and constructing a building in dialogue with it, we could reliably create environments that enliven us."
"We call this quality resonance. It's the experience of encountering something that speaks to our deeper values. It's a spark of recognition, a sense that we're being invited to lean in, to participate. Unlike the digital junk food of the day, the more we engage with what resonates, the more we're left feeling nourished, grateful, alive. As individuals, following the breadcrumbs of resonance helps us build meaningful lives. As communities, companies, and societies, cultivating shared resonance helps us break away from perverse incentives, and play positive-sum infinite games together."
"Software can now respond fluidly to the context and particularity of each human—at scale. One-size-fits-all is no longer a technological or economic necessity. Where once our digital environments inevitably shaped us against our will, we can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them."
"Plural: No single entity should control the digital spaces we inhabit. Healthy ecosystems require distributed power, interoperability, and meaningful choice for participants."
herocast must exist so that users on open protocols can have meaningful choice how to access the protocol