the GOT bike

 My sister, like my mother, is a nurse. She started in university, as I did, as an engineering major, specifically biomedical, before deciding her real interest was biomedical, not engineering, and switching majors, as well as schools. Hey, I followed her lead there as well, transferring to become the slowest reader to ever pursue an English degree. Maybe it was genetic. Slow readers make slow work of a book with 372 pages, not including "About the Author", acknowledgements, nor endnotes. I spent a bit of time sitting with Wes Marshall's  Killed by a Traffic Engineer , but early in that going, I was thinking of my sister's job. While she started as a practicing nurse, that engineering mindset for systems didn't go away, and her career migrated to accident prevention. In her words, doctors are human, so they make mistakes. The solution is to design a system where it is harder for those mistakes to happen. Her field now is the one that developed stardards like havin...