I was just in the gym of the hotel we are staying at on Kauai for our honeymoon and overheard a couple of doctors talking. The entire conversation was about how they generate revenue and how to get more. Neither of them mentioned quality of care or patient outcomes once.
Our healthcare system incentivizes doctors to perform as many procedures as possible at a high of cost as possible without regard to patient outcomes.… read more “Doctors Should Be Paid On Outcomes, Not Procedures”
I realized yesterday that I have my personal history documented on my blog, in my gmail, and on Facebook stretching back ten years.
I read some of my ancient emails and came to see a different side to myself. I found some good, and lots of the embarrassing. Sadly I also found the bad.
The good included old dreams and ideas that have come to fruition.… read more “Personal History”
Gambling preys on neurological habits that people can’t control. Casinos make their games more addictive than heroin or tobacco.
We should outlaw gambling.
Casino employees know how bad people are hurt by gambling, but still try to find ways to get them even more addicted. Gambling and casinos are straight evil.
I am investigating possibly setting up an Employee Stock Ownership Plan for my team. If it will not cause too large of an expense or tax or legal issues I will probably do it. My biggest concern right now is that overseas team members may not be able to participate and that it could be cost prohibitive (tens of thousands of dollars) to hire someone to administer it.… read more “ESOP Plans”
If the number of medical errors we have in hospitals was the same as pilot errors in airlines, we’d have 267 fully loaded (366 passenger) Boeing 747’s crash EVERY year.
That’s how many people medical errors kill. What’s being done about this? Not as much as you’d think. Doctors are overworked, nurses are overworked, etc.… read more “Medical Errors”
One of my developers and I are having a big debate about whether it is better to rewrite from scratch or incrementally upgrade an poorly coded app.
He really wants to rewrite it because it is poorly coded and convoluted to understand. It would be more fun for him and easier to get started doing his own thing.… read more “Rewrite vs Upgrading Your App”
Weimar Canyon
We have a 2nd Amendment because America’s founders believed armed citizens could fight back against tyranny.
The last two years have seen a large public outcry against what is perceived to be police racism and shootings of minorities.
In Dallas, 11 police officers were shot by a man who apparently believed he was exercising his 2nd Amendment rights to fight tyranny.… read more “2nd Amendment”