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#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Ariadne Limes, or My Writing, I'm Just Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again

I like having a lot of irons in the fire, I like being a jack of all trades. A finding the edges between things is often where i have something to add. Most of my value just comes from saying and pointing out we we don't live up to what we say we're going to do. It's usually for really complicated reasons. And then unnotting the complexity a and just taking time to do that. You know, if you look at what i contribute in these spaces, it's not genius ideas, a checklist for surgery. It's just taking an idea from one domain and saying, let's bring it over to the other"

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