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On the power of checklists, see also Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker (10 December 2007) ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_... ). The article describes how medical checklists, especially when nurses are empowered to force doctors to follow them, can improve patient outcomes. The article also mentions an interesting example of checklists in aviation history.
On the power of checklists, see also Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker (10 December 2007) ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_... ). The article describes how medical checklists, especially when nurses are empowered to force doctors to follow them, can improve patient outcomes. The article also mentions an interesting example of checklists in aviation history.
I am also struck when reading Gawande that in many ways, his writing is like Gladwell's: interesting anecdote, statement of principle, seemingly unrelated anecdote, full description of principle.
However, given these same elements, I feel much more convinced by Gawande than by Gladwell. The latter's principles never really seem to follow from the anecdotes quoted; there's a logical gap, or he seems to be misinterpreting the research, or he's found a corner-case, or he's just grasping for straws.
Yet, I can't really figure out why I don't feel the same way about Gawande. Perhaps because he writes mostly about medicine, and as a (former?) doctor, he lends more credibility? Whereas Gladwell writes about more everyday and varied things, in which he is obviously not an expert?
On the power of checklists, see also Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker (10 December 2007) ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_... ). The article describes how medical checklists, especially when nurses are empowered to force doctors to follow them, can improve patient outcomes. The article also mentions an interesting example of checklists in aviation history.
I really wanted something like this for going hiking. When you go on a four-day hike it really, really sucks if you forget something important. But there are about 20 important things, so you can't rely on remembering them all. You need to build a checklist. But this process takes a while and discourages casual hikers from going on longer hikes. So I would love a checklist tool that I could use for this. Right now I…
I often check my gear against lists that are published by camping supply companies (Coleman, etc). Much further down the line, it might be an interesting business model to allow for "sponsored" lists.
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Looks sharp, but it looks like it's somewhat more orientated towards businesses - this isn't a bad thing, but inline with the original HN request above, I think you will likely need two workflows: business and 'public'. The public workflow would need to be super-simple looking (that whole web 2.0-ish look 'n feel) with prominent search. Perhaps something like: chcheck.com/business vs chcheck.com/public and chcheck.co…
chcheck is designed first and foremost to be useful for individuals, small teams and small businesses. The current interface is in the process of being given a more understandable and inviting initial user experience to accomplish that.
The rough idea was that you would collect this public information, add a calendar/reminder component and then localize (which would be the hard part).
It sounds as if you may be going down this path at some point in the future. If so, I think it would be a very interesting service for which small businesses might pay a token yearly fee.
http://chcheck.com You can create checklists, create and track changes between instances, diff changes between the master and instances, create iterative checklists, embed checklists in other checklists and set dependencies. Also the interface was built with usability and flexibility in mind. I have also added task, data list, comment, contact and document management since all of those are necessary for a good proces…
I'm looking forward to seeing the finished site with all of the features Daniel has in mind fully implemented