Atul Gawande’s Better is going on the reading list. From the above blog post:
Many of Gawande’s stories shed light on the reality that we often must make decisions on the basis of imperfect information and knowledge. We may not be able always to meet a gold standard of evidence, but we still benefit from a methodological commitment to hypothesis, experiment, and measurement.
That benefit, I think, is that we get “better” at the stuff we’re doing.
And in the interest of sharing my full set of distractions and as an example of synchronicity, two posts from the Freakonomics blog: