Two Hundred Years of Surgery -
It would take a little while for surgeons to discover that the use of anesthesia allowed them time to be meticulous. Despite the advantages of anesthesia, Liston, like many other surgeons, proceeded in his usual lightning-quick and bloody way. Spectators in the operating-theater gallery would still get out their pocket watches to time him. The butler’s operation, for instance, took an astonishing 25 seconds from incision to wound closure. (Liston operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant’s fingers along with a patient’s leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality.)
4 - 5 cups a day? That’s all? No problem.
Empathy -
Understanding that people don’t buy things because of their demographics — nobody buys something because they’re a 25-30 year old white male with a college degree — but rather, because they go about living their life and some situation arises in which they need to solve a problem… and so they “hire” a product to do the job. This is a big “ah ha” to many folks when they first hear it; but when you really boil it down, the true power of this is in giving people in business a frame with which to exercise empathy. In fact, both Akio Morita of Sony and Steve Jobs were famous for never commissioning market research — instead, they’d just walk around the world watching what people did. They’d put themselves in the shoes of their customers.
Depleting your iPhone’s battery midday is one measure of productivity, I guess. (Taken with instagram)
The AeroPress recipe (really) at the World AeroPress Championship (yes, really) that took home the Gold AeroPress (these are all real things) this year is remarkably simple.
The World Aeropress Championship Blog:
Charlene’s Method
- wet the filter thoroughly
- put it on the Aeropress filter
- 18.30 grams of coffee, grind coarsely
- use the normal, non-inverted method
- 85°C, 250 grams water
- about 40 grams of blooming water ( +/- 30 sec)
- then poor the rest of the water and press, not pressing all the way
- then serve. simple!
“Physicians are specifically trained to look for problems. The purpose of diagnosis is to identify what is wrong with a patient’s health. As a consequence, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about what is ill, incorrect, out of order, defective. Our worldview can shift so that we overlook what is healthy, robust, flourishing, hopeful.” — Informal Curriculum: Lesson 5.
That head-tilt thing when you spot something puzzling? That thing that’s so universal that both humans and dogs do it? I love that.