WebMD, Doing the Right Thing & reading - Edition 6
WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise
When we find something inconvenient then it’s pretty easy to rant about why X is not like Y. In reality we live in a complicated world. For the folks working in X they need to juggle with other constraints. And that’s why we have guidelines from FDA and warnings from webMD which are too broad and too generic to be useful. The experts are not wrong most of the time. They seem to us wrong or not useful to us because we don’t have a full understanding of the limitations they are working with. The clincher is that “Dr. Anthony Fauci is the WebMD of people.”.
To Do the Right Thing, You Might Have to Die
What does it mean to be men and women in uniform? When we respect folks in uniform what are we respecting them for? This post got more than 800 comments and some of the comments are quite illuminating.
The myth of the myth of the well read person
If you can’t remember what was in a book a week after having a read a book is there a point in reading that book. Well it depends on what you are reading the book for. If you are reading the book for understanding something on a broad level then it’s terribly difficult to understand a subject after reading some materials on that. If the goal is to be an expert in a field then it’s a different matter all together.
But reading is hard. That’s why not many folks read or continue to read for a really long time. It reminds me of an interview I had listened of David McCullough. The interview was about his book The Wright Brothers. The author had mentioned that the Wright Brothers didn’t have running water in their house but their house was filled with books.