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"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." – Stephen Covey

90% of startups fail. How can you ensure yours thrives?

Over the next few weeks, we will cover the five crucial execution pitfalls in your startup and how to avoid them. Today is our third execution pitfall in the series: prioritization.

Startup founders are constantly juggling multiple tasks and decisions. Prioritization alone will not ensure success, but the inability to prioritize will guarantee failure. When a founder says, “Everything is important,” all I hear is, “Nothing is important.” 

I’d much rather accomplish three goals than just list ten I never complete.

Today’s post covers the crucial distinction between urgent and important, the need for a decision framework, the calendar as a shield, and other options to help you prioritize.

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A First Principles Approach to Responsible AI Use

First-principles thinking is a process of breaking down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassembling them from the ground up.

AI can help healthcare solve real problems like improving patient outcomes and automating repetitive tasks to improve provider efficiency. When applied properly, AI reduces administrative burdens, improves care coordination and communication, and amplifies learning for doctors and patients, creating impactful solutions. 

Other industries can learn a lot from a first-principles approach. The full article is here.

Gregory Odland is the CEO and co-founder of Playback Health, an industry-leading, low-cost AI medical scribe built by clinicians.

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