Example from COVID vaccine trials: Meri (a trial enrollee) had to download an ancient version of Internet explorer because, despite the trial being worth about $30k per patient, the CRO couldn’t spell SSL and Chrome blocked their site as a consequence.
@patio11
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Clinical Research Organizations Face Execution Gaps in Pharma
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Ross and Meri discuss how clinical research organizations, who are essentially GCs sitting between pharma labs and sites which actually have clinical staff that can see patients, often are other than competent at meat and potatoes execution.
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Operational competence challenges in clinical drug development trials
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Listening to @rossry ‘s new podcast about drug development and the first episode about operational competence issues in clinical trials is giving me flashbacks.
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Financial Advice Framework Real Estate Portfolio Allocation Wealth
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I’d expand it to proscriptively saying “If you have competent financial advisors listen to them. If you don’t, I’m going to lay out how much of RE that x% of various wealth ranges here could think of having as part of a balanced portfolio.”
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Essay Meta Influence on Senior Politicians Information Diet
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Another win for the essay meta. (Object level politics aside: senior politicians and their staff are going to have an information diet whether you like them or not. Would you prefer it to be you or the replacement rate explainer from Vox or a CNBC talking head?)
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Risk Management: Handling Customer Default and Financial Loss
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But yeah the single account answer to “What if a customer blows up?” is “Then you lose money. This is why you have a risk department. You have a risk department, right.”
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What URLs Should Exist Future World States Algorithm
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There is slightly more to my "What do write about?" algorithm than "What URL will I really want to exist given some future world states" but that is a part of it. Happy to be of service.
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AI Employment Litigation: Billions in Legal Liability
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“Consequences?” Employment practices litigation is pretty industrialized in California. If you have a colorable claim, your enployer’s insurance pays out $250k or so. At that going rate times amount of illegal activity, right scale to think of is “tens of billions of dollars.”
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HR Legal Compliance: Race-Based Hiring Discrimination Lawsuits
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“See, when we told you in HR orientation that you were absolutely positively not allowed to use a candidate’s race as a factor, and that we would lose a suit if we did that, we were correctly summarizing the law. We took our lumps for this.”
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Tech Industry Reckoning: Illegal Hiring Practices Need Consequences
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I would not mind the tech industry reckoning with this, but nobody’s project plan for the corner is opening old cans of worms on how there were pervasively illegal hiring plans for a few years. Still, would be nice to have consequences to be able to tell people the next time.