🎙️ One of these days I will have a nice thing to write about something, but until then here is an anti-recommendation for "Acquired", a podcast for people who are not me

Since the Acquired podcast was so heavily recommended by John Gruber and Ben Thompson on Dithering, I thought I would give it a try. Half an hour into an almost four-hour episode about Epic EMR, I am not impressed. The style is in the uncanny valley between spontaneous and fully scripted, where the two co-hosts simulate a dialogue in the style of NotebookLM. I could actually tolerate that part: “The Rest Is History” podcast has the same shtick and I’ve listened to quite a few episodes. What I can’t stand is sloppiness about facts (ahem), and this is what one of the hosts uttered as an introduction to why medical records have become so important: The important thing to realize from all this is that the vast majority of patients do not feel the cost of their healthcare directly in the United States. Those costs are so laundered through private insurance companies and Medicare and Medicaid, that most people think about any given health encounter as being paid for by someone else, by a…