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title: "Best Practices are Dead. Long Live Best Practices." date: 2025-01-18 description: "Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that 'Bloodletting' was a common medical procedure for the better part of 3000 years. I'm kind of spellbound by the duration- it was one hell of a lindy effect. Our first evidence of its use appeared in Egypt..." img: "img/prettykitty.png" draft: false tags: business technology leadership--- Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that "Bloodletting" was a common medical procedure for the better part of 3000 years. I'm kind of spellbound by the duration- it was one hell of a lindy effect. Our first evidence of its use appeared in Egypt, as indicated by the Ebers papyrus, an Egyptian medical papyrus dating to circa 1550 BC (link). If you are hip in the academic world you might know that medical "doctors" are differentiated from PhDs in that they were practitioners and associated more closely with barbers during the middle ages…