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Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Prof. Harold Thrimbleby, “Designing IT to Make Healthcare Safer” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I It might not sound like much from the title, but it's really worth a watch. Thrimbleby talks about UX (captivatingly, even though I'm not usually particularly interested in it) and the many, many bad examples within healthcare tech that leads, directly, to people dying—such as his mother. He also has s…

Cybernetics for the Masses is great, and Lepht has some really interesting ideas. It's too bad they seem to have dropped off the grid. Does anybody know what happened?

They blog (intermittently) at Sapiens Anonym.[1] They went dark for a bit due to what I gather were various medical, educational and relationship issues, but things have been picking up again lately.[2]

[1]https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/

[2]https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/upcoming.html

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8

A great talk, thanks!

This is a great talk from another networking legend: "Network Protocols: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries" by Radia Perlman.

I love her personality and sense of humor, and it has tech content that is completely relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiMBegejQM

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