CNBC:
With most tech products, if they don’t work well you can throw them in a drawer and chalk the loss up up to the costs of being an early adopter. The same is not true of health tech products, argues former Apple employee Robin Goldstein, who most recently served as a senior manager of special health projects. That’s because health tech products connect users to their own mortality, and a bad outcome can be disastrous.
This short piece definitely brings up some good points I hadn’t thought about before.
“Yeah, who cares if test accuracy’s not so great in the first year?”
Pretty much everyone.
There is a vast difference between “fail fast” and “learn fast”. You can learn fast in an endeavour but it requires discipline, rigour, and a lot of attention to metrics.
“move fast and break things” takes on a whole new meaning when the ‘things’ are human beings…