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The beauty of checklists

By Julie Starr | Published: April 7, 2010
I’ve just read The Checklist Manifesto, a lovely little book by Anul Gawande, a surgeon and New Yorker writer who wrote a notable piece last year about finding that more expensive healthcare wasn’t necessarily better healthcare. The premise of the book is that a simple (but well devised) checklist is perhaps the best tool we [...]
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Anderson votes for ‘free’, Gladwell unconvinced

By Julie Starr | Published: July 1, 2009
In the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell has written a response to Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. I haven’t read Anderson’s book yet and don’t have any excerpts from it to post here other than these quotes from Wired. There’s also a video below of him talking about [...]
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