What I read
June 29, 2025: Australian Unicorn Go1. Designing for healthcare systems.The Expert Generalist by Martin Fowler. MCP Library. FDA introducing AI. Crossing the Chasm sequel. Andrej Karpathy on X.
Fix One Thing, Break Five: Why clinical software needs whole-system thinking
Healthcare Product leader Danielle Bancroft, penned an article on how designing in healthcare requires understanding the intricate tapestry of workflow dependencies, not just shipping features. A terrific read for digital health innovators!
Go1 - Education Portal for Corporates - A Unicorn Strategy & Story
Story of how a simple idea to aggregate online courses so employers can purchase L&D content in one place for their diverse employee needs became a unicorn. Founded in 2015, the Australian unicorn has grown rapidly and raised over $100M in funding, valued at over $2Bn. This was the era of MOOCs which were driven by the huge demand for online education.
FDA announcing use of AI to scientific reviewers and investigators increase efficiency (FDA)
FDA launch an AI service that should increase the backlog of healthcare innovation reviews. Elsa AI is built on a GovCloud instance to keep sensitive data private. Elsa AI should “accelerate clinical protocol reviews, shorten time for scientific evaluation and identify high priority inspection targets”.
Expert Generalists are needed in industry, Martin Fowler
Companies would benefit from hiring and grooming “Expert Generalists” — people with a mindset of curiosity, collaboration, fundamental principles based thinking, customer-centricity and appreciation of related domains. This is vital in companies (and leadership roles) with a higher pace of change and uncertainty, over having a fixed skill or technology knowledge. I couldn’t agree with this more! At ThoughtWorks, the most successful professionals were those with this quality.
From Crossing the Chasm to the Bowling Alley and Tornado
Geoffrey Moore built on his first book “Crossing the Chasm” (published in 1991) with a sequel book that explains what is required to build out market share and capture new segments (bowling alley), before getting sucked into a hyper-scale phase (tornado). The lesser known book explains what is required to change segments, manage scaling and capture late majority customers (main street).
Interesting Reads:
MCP Library, GitHub
Anthropic, Open sourced circuit tracing to trace thoughts of LLMs (Anthropic)
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