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JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
Thinking one step ahead instead of two
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
We use AI as a teaching aid. It supplements traditional learning. It gives people the ability to have a dialogue with information.

It’s not replacement
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
The real question is “how to get shit done”?

Scrum, agile, safe, etc.. are ways to get shit done that all target the measurement.

Estimations are that measurement.

The nugget from this article that seems to missed by many is the subtle but strong advocacy for XP style Mob/Pair programming.
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
There was a part of the article that discussed that you create tasks, not stories.

You can group the tasks into stories or milestones or iterations or epics.

In general, he’s saying you should always keep breaking down a task until it’s a 1, since 1s are easy to estimate.

The key part that may be missed is the “mob programming” or “pair programming” aspect where all the engineers on a team sit together and work through a story or milestones or epic to come up with a list one 1 point tasks.

Obviously this still can’t be done, so the only effective end solution is maximum pair/mob programming unless all tasks in an iteration are accounted for and broken down into easily understandable and estimable bits of work.

There is at least some truth to the notion that if you use mob programming, estimating becomes pointless.
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
It’s not as easy in reality as theory.

1) Services are often unique per patient. Even for patients with the same ICD-10 codes, the quality of service will vary. Hospitals cost different amounts to run. If you always peg the price to the lowest, it will be a race to the bottom for quality of service.

2) Patients are unique, with different health profiles, with different preferences for paying. Markets are different. Some markets only have one insurance payer.

3) Healthcare is already tax deductible
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
I’m reading the book “determined” right now. It’s pretty good and sums up all the arguments very nicely.

And of course we don’t have free will. We have experience, which fools us into thinking we are in control.
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
Then take off the “self” part.

How about conscious is awareness? The more aware you are, the more conscious you are?
JohnAaronNelson
·2년 전·discuss
It seems that an anesthesiologists job is to make sure you’re unconscious. If there’s anyone that knows how to define consciousness, it should probably be them.

Seems that consciousness is an awareness of certain stimuli that give rise to novel patterns in our brain, in turn triggering our frontal lobes to notice…
JohnAaronNelson
·4년 전·discuss
Thank you. Saying “my bad” is the first step. Fixing it afterwards is what good people do.

When someone is accused of a crime, they can plead innocent or guilty. That is step one.

There are more steps after that…
JohnAaronNelson
·4년 전·discuss
Facebook (and social media in general) has made the world a more divided place full of sadder and angrier people. He runs a company that optimizes for that scenario while accruing unimaginable sums of capital, and he doubled down with Meta. Hmm I wonder why some people are not fans.