“Why does anyone need the pronunciation?” There are some characters which are ambiguous if you don’t have arbitrarily intense local knowledge. “And… do you actually need that to send mail?” No, but the last 99 forms asked for pronunciation, so the requirements document will
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Tech Culture of Ownership and Founder-Led Agency
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As an aside: if tech could export one cultural quirk to the rest of the world, it should be the culture of end to end ownership and agency, ideally throughout the chain and in the avatar of the founder if we cannot manage that.
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IRB Ethics Concerns in AI Clinical Trial Process
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That piece was ~50% of the reason that I immediately suspected IRB shenanigans. (I was told they were the models of professionalism in accelerating the process for the trial and could not have been more helpful, by the PI.)
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Incompetence in Clinical Trial Decision-Making Processes
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And in this exact case we get partial credit because by some string of coincidences and communications pathways someone whose knowledge of clinical trial practice optimization was due to selling bingo cards got tapped to make the call on how many questions to ask an enrollee.
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Institutions and Inadequate Equilibria in Decision Making
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I haven’t read a better book on this general issue that Inadequate Equilibria. Because *clearly* society would have wanted that trial to succeed (contingent on the biochemistry working etc etc). But society doesn’t make decisions; the institutions it is consisted of do.
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Academic System Failures Hide Research Trial Underperformance Issues
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It’s not the grad student’s fault, not in any way that matters. Nobody at the university wants to make an enemy of the PI or alienate potential funders in the future. There is no after action on why the trial underperformed because the system does not know, legibly, that it did.
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Unreported Stories in Clinical Trial Operations Web Applications
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Most stories like this never get reported. What reporter anywhere can you get interested in web applications supporting clinical trial operations management. And most insiders will not speak about these things except over a stiff drink.
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Management Failure Blocks Drug Trial Over PHP Developer Shortage
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And nobody in the management chain felt sufficient levels of care about this issue to immediately find someone who could fix. At, again, an American research university, on a funded drug trial, where the blocker is literally Can Anyone In The World Write PHP Please.
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Team PHP expertise and technical decision-making challenges
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Why was she making those decisions? Only member of the team that could PHP. Why did they not unmake those decisions? Just told you.
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Trial bureaucracy undermines research efficiency and accountability
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In an early meeting with the team, I asked why the trial intake form had ~200 questions. I assumed this was for Complicated Medical Reasons or that it had been foisted on them by the bioethics board which was in no way accountable for actual success of the trial.