Curated. There were a few reasons I like this post:
1) I’m generally excited to have people who have spent years pursuing a complex goal or developing a complex skill, writing up their insights about it.
2) The object level of “how to think about personalized medicine, and which aspects of it are actually tractable” seems quite valuable. While there aren’t that many people working on medical startups, it seems like the field in general is a mixture of “lots of obvious broken things” but “lots of non-obvious reasons why the things are broken that way.” This post seems useful for focusing people’s efforts in directions that are more likely to work.
3) On the meta level, this seemed like a good lens into Inadequate Equilibria. Even though I’m not working on a medical startup, the framework here feels helpful for looking at other messy-areas-full-of-broken-things that seem like you should be able to fix them, but with non-obvious reasons why fixing them in some ways is harder than other ways.
Through that last lens – one thing I might have appreciated here is more detail on how you came to believe the things you did about the various problem-areas. I’d be interested in a followup post that’s something like “the general advice you wish you had at the beginning of MetaMed, that would have enabled you to more quickly figure out which areas to focus on.”
Curated. There were a few reasons I like this post:
1) I’m generally excited to have people who have spent years pursuing a complex goal or developing a complex skill, writing up their insights about it.
2) The object level of “how to think about personalized medicine, and which aspects of it are actually tractable” seems quite valuable. While there aren’t that many people working on medical startups, it seems like the field in general is a mixture of “lots of obvious broken things” but “lots of non-obvious reasons why the things are broken that way.” This post seems useful for focusing people’s efforts in directions that are more likely to work.
3) On the meta level, this seemed like a good lens into Inadequate Equilibria. Even though I’m not working on a medical startup, the framework here feels helpful for looking at other messy-areas-full-of-broken-things that seem like you should be able to fix them, but with non-obvious reasons why fixing them in some ways is harder than other ways.
Through that last lens – one thing I might have appreciated here is more detail on how you came to believe the things you did about the various problem-areas. I’d be interested in a followup post that’s something like “the general advice you wish you had at the beginning of MetaMed, that would have enabled you to more quickly figure out which areas to focus on.”