- Clayton Christensen’s latest book (about universities) is not good, judging by this review. Christensen has had a stroke, which might explain it. This is surprising because The Innovator’s Dilemma by him is very good — the best book I can think of with an incomprehensible title.
- How easy it is for doctors to defraud Medicare.
- Why major medical journals won’t say how many reprints they sell
- Pros and cons of getting your genome sequenced. Pro: The sequence suggested he was at high risk for diabetes, he started checking his blood sugar, and he got diabetes. Con: Cost of his life insurance went way up. Note: It costs llittle to test your blood sugar daily, as I do (I am not at high risk of diabetes, as far as I know).
Thanks to Bryan Castañeda.
Seth, you said:
“Clayton Christensen’s latest book (about universities) is not good, judging by this review. Christensen has had a stroke, which might explain it.”
I’m not sure that surviving a stroke explains much of anything. I know lots of fellow stroke survivors, and everything depends upon which part of the brain was affected. In my case, I’ve had two fairly mild left-brain ischemic strokes, and the most frustrating problems that they caused me were that they messed up the use of my right hand for handwriting and typing. Dadgummit, I can no longer print small enough to fill in the blanks in the books containing the most challenging New York Times crossword puzzles.
But if you’ll accept a stroke as an excuse for my rambling comments, I’ll take that.
Genome sequence work-around for those that want anonymity
https://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Becoming-Brad-Pitt-Uses-and-Abuses-of-DNA.pdf
(Bonus chapter that did not make it into The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss)