Got around to reading Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto a full 3 years after reading an excerpt from his book in the New Yorker and finished it yesternight in a few hours.

Gawande starts the book by stating right away why in spite of all the vast knowledge we have at our disposal we fail at what we set out to do in the world. He says there are 2 reasons: Ignorance (We only have a partial understanding of how things work), and Ineptitude (We have the knowledge yet fail to apply it correctly). He makes a strong case for the checklist and how it could address both these situations of human fallibility.