My DHF, Version 2.1
I suggest that you stop reading. This is boring. I’m not saying that as a way to interest someone into reading more, I truly believe that this would be boring to most people.
Entries by jasonpartin
Bid Daddy and Jimmy Hoffa
1940’s – 1972 What Big Daddy and Uncle Doug had done in Woodville Mississippi was being repeated on a larger scale nationally. Crime and labor unions were unifying in the prosperity and opportunities that followed WWII. Politicians and presidents and gangsters were promising to make every man a king. One of those people was James […]
Wendy’s Family
1955-1972 In the 1950’s, my grandmother was a young woman, living a comfortable life in Richmond Hill Canada, a neighborhood of Toronto. She was petite, barely 5 feet 1 inches tall. Or, as Canadians say, she was a’boot 1.5 meters tall, ‘eh. Her wrists were so thin that her watch would barely fit around the […]
How to retire early
This article is how to retire early, based on personal experiences.
My DHF, Version 2.1
I suggest that you stop reading. This is boring. I’m not saying that as a way to interest someone into reading more, I truly believe that this would be boring to most people.
How to meditate
This article is how to meditate and reduce suffering from chronic pain.
Use design controls for innovation
In the movie Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DeCaprio challenged his team to “sell me this pen,” implying that a good salesperson could sell anything. This article helps teams “design a pen” using design controls in a way that sparks innovation. I wrote it for the biotech or medical device industries but the concepts apply […]
Medical Device Design Controls
This article provides an overview of FDA design controls and lists resources to help understand and apply them. This is in a “dry” format, necessary for repeating definitions. See my blog for versions that use case-studies or are related to pop culture. 5 minute read.
The European MDR: learn from my mistakes
The European Union Medical Device Regulation protects patient safety and encourages medical device innovation. Companies that embrace the opportunity will succeed; companies that complain will not. Either way, society benefits. This article is to help you learn the MDR using a product I co-invented and commercialized in 2004, demonstrating how to apply modern MDR regulations. […]
Design Control: learn from my mistakes
Innovation, efficiency, and safety can coexist when a team uses effective design controls. In this article, I apply modern design controls to a product I co-invented and commercialized in 2004 using lessons learned in 15 years. I describe that product in another article. This article helps you learn from my mistakes.