TV network is looking for DC-area open source types
A major TV network is doing a piece on new ways to work — and has enlisted my help in finding folks to profile. In particular, the producers are looking for people in the Washington, DC, area who contribute to open source projects such as Linux, Apache, and Firefox.
If you fit that bill (or know somebody who does), and you’d like to be interviewed, shoot me a short email. I’ll pass the info on to the producers.
Do it today if you can. Your fame awaits.
Looks like a fun opportunity. A little of subject, but it is an exciting time to get involved with TV (trust me I know the ups and downs of this one). TV producers, stations, etc. are changing their approach to content/monetization and there has never been a better opportunity for “right brain” (wink) entrepreneurs to get involved.
Dan,
I’m about halfway through your book.
One insight: You may have identified the root cause for why “pay for performance” incentives in health care aren’t working.
The goal of P4P is to bend health care away from low-value, high-cost procedures and services, to the opposite. As the health care summit that I’m watching on TV right now tells us, it’s not working. The traditional wisdom explanation are a.) they’re not big enough; b.) the reporting processes are too difficult; or c.) doctors are just stubborn.
There’s a little truth in some of those, but they don’t begin to illuminate a solution.
If you’re right, P4P programs fail perhaps because they produce the opposite of the intended result – and we know medicine is just as much about creative thinking, as it is doing what we know works.
Perhaps the right answer is not to reward for achieving specific goals, as most P4P programs do, but to focus efforts on your themes of autonomy, mastery and purpose. I don’t know how that would work out pragmatically, but your work suggests that continuing to fix traditional P4P is a dead end.
Thoughts?