[1] https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public [2] https://opencollective.com/become-a-host

The title of this blog post hints at an important topic. However, I think even a single page summary or graphic from Switch may be more actionable. I don't love Switch's elephant analogy but it's good enough. It helped me with blind spots in my proposals.

I don't see the price tag for this, but a few million dollars isn't all that much given the complexity of the dissemination challenge. It's probably a program but likely not an entire department. Curating knowledge and getting it to right people's attention at the right time is hard work. Did you see the materials they produce/disseminate?

https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/resources/order

After birth, when new parents are sleep deprived, is a uniquely stressful time when parents are bombarded with information. Advice on the Internet is prolific and often wrong, raising anxiety without providing needed context-sensitive guidance. It looks like this program was providing trustworthy materials and outreach to reduce infant death.

1. Minimal -- the design and implementation must be the smallest as possible, especially the scope (which should be deliberately "incomplete")

2. Timely -- the implementation must be delivered as soon as feasible, even if it comes before the design (get it working first, then figure out why)

3. Relevant -- the design and implementation must address important, unmet need, eschewing needs that are not urgent at the time (you can iterate or supplement)

4. Usable -- the implementation must be integrated with the existing, working and stable infrastructure (even if that integration causes design compromises)

The other dimensions, simplicity, correctness, consistency, and completeness are very nice to have, but they are not the primary drivers of this philosophy.

A substantial problem for the Linux ecosystem on Azure is that Azure Files is not POSIX compliant. With Container Apps, ephemeral storage is POSIX compliant. However, if you mount a persistent Azure Files file system and use it directly, some applications break. One workaround is to use rsync in the background to replicate data from ephemeral to Azure Files, but we can lose data this way (and ephemeral storage is limited to 8 GiB).

It'd also be nice if "Consumption Only" container apps would have more than 4GB of memory. It's so nice to use these.

There is a business opportunity here, like Framework (with open specs), but for Induction cooktops, refrigerators, dishwashers, etc.

Tufts CTSI (https://www.tuftsctsi.org/) is one of 60 NIH CTSA awardees. We are seeking a clinical data analyst / RSE to support our investigators with cohort discoveries, chart abstractions, data modeling, visualizations, and other data analysis needed for the preparation and performance of medical research grants. You would also help us grow our OHDSI (https://ohdsi.org) based research data warehouse (ETL from Epic EHR), work with RedCAP instruments, and automate operational processes. This role requires outstanding verbal and written literacy, a love of healthcare data, coupled with technical competence. We use Julia (esp. https://github.com/MechanicalRabbit/FunSQL.jl) for our database query work. This job is mostly researcher support and improving our ETLs; software we build/use is open source.

This job requires you reside in the U.S. without additional work permits. This is a junior position. This job advertisement is open but not yet posted. You could email me, hn-20240501@clarkevans.com to apply. Thank you so much.

Tufts CTSI seeks a Project Manager to help us coordinate an international Oncology Network within the OHDSI (https://ohdsi.org) community. This role includes extensive online communication, frequent documentation authoring and editing, diagramming critical dataflows, understanding of relevant health technologies, and learning the nuances of oncology research.

The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (or OHDSI, pronounced "Odyssey") program is a multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary collaborative to bring out the value of health data through large-scale analytics. All our solutions are open-source.

I cannot provide any pay details, but you're welcome to email me.

https://tuftsmedicine.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Tufts-M...

"Platform cooperative" is the term used in the literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative

https://platform.coop/

I particularly like Nathan Schneider's writings:

https://nathanschneider.info/articles-list/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/lead-contami...

Since I have neuropathy, I especially like the ones with tread on the bottom, but that makes them chiral... and it always seems like my drawer has 3 left socks. Expensive ones with treads are sold by "V-Toe Socks, Inc".