Hard to find good stuff online but WWII Committee on Medical Research probably has useful lessons. In very short order, figured out how to scale penicillin production, found better malaria antivirals (including chloroquine!), huge improvements in blood transfusions/replacements…
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There might be better coverage elsewhere but best I've found is in medical chapters of https://www.amazon.com/Scientists-against-James-Phinney-Baxter/dp/0262520125 ….
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Bush also covers some of it in his memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Pieces-action-Vannevar-Bush/dp/B0006CAJ44 ….
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Love following your emphasis of fast-paced innovative projects, curious if you’ve come across an analogue of inflation adjusted dev time? Is a unit of progress per unit time now equivalent to then? How do we normalize for complexity? How is complexity coupled to inefficiency? Etc
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As prices rise the value of a unit of currency falls. With the rise of technology would you say the value of a unit of time has gone up?
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