Concise and explained with rigor and empathy. But yes as someone in the field of medicine, it’s nothing that we don’t already know. It is an uncertainConcise and explained with rigor and empathy. But yes as someone in the field of medicine, it’s nothing that we don’t already know. It is an uncertain science and no amount of AI can replace truly experienced and capable doctors and physicians....more
Dr Gawande writes with a measured voice, but his curiosity and enthusiasm to basically be the best yoMotivational and practical, sans self-help spiel.
Dr Gawande writes with a measured voice, but his curiosity and enthusiasm to basically be the best you can be at what you do is infectious.
Regardless of your vocation or even during your vacations, his tips should be applicable for a more positive and fulfilling experience, and hopefully, results. Not every section interested me equally (I was most drawn in by the Ingenuity section). But then I came to realise that the section which didn't fascinate me as much was in fact my weakest area (Diligence), and that's where I need to push myself more.
Will you actually get better from practising what this book is promoting? Who knows, but Dr Gawande believes it's possible, and Russell Peters (or rather the Chinese merchant his dad haggled with) had said what this book is basically asking you to do:
[image] Equally applicable to women, the Chinese merchant happened to be addressing Russell Peters' dad, so...more
An erudite while practical discourse on design and how designers figure in developing and shaping our identities through the discernment of taste. ThiAn erudite while practical discourse on design and how designers figure in developing and shaping our identities through the discernment of taste. This is probably only applicable to academics but nevertheless it might serve to add a more developed design thinking behind the construction of goods....more
The goodreads rating system doesn't apply here, because for once it's not a book where I can say 'I liked it' or 'I did not like it'.
I don't think I The goodreads rating system doesn't apply here, because for once it's not a book where I can say 'I liked it' or 'I did not like it'.
I don't think I ever finished reading all the chapters because beyond dissecting the chapter(s) required for my then-group project, the brainfry was palpable. With this book it's a constant state of becoming, me as a reader who simultaneously had finished and is still reading and eschewing its contents.
It made perfect sense and it made no sense, if you get what I mean. I seriously couldn't get how the authors could've thought of all those things yet I see how it came to be. The closest thing to an epiphany through reading if ever there was such. Or, mindfuck, whichever state you happen to be in....more
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