The discovery of insulin is considered a miracle in the world of science. In 1922, a trio of scientists at the University of Toronto discovered a method for extracting insulin from the pancreas of cows. Scientists Fredrick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip administered this to a fourteen-year-old boy named Leonard Thompson. Within hours the blood sugar stabilized. Soon after, the trio visited a large ward of hospitals and administered insulin. The story gets even more interesting. The trio sold this patent to the University of Toronto for just 3 dollars! ( From the book The raging 2020s by Alec Ross). The insulin production was later switched to synthetic materials and was produced at scale.
But there is more to this story. This innovation did not materialize as a miracle as many believed. Scientists studied many animal models and thought about this problem for years. It did not happen overnight. In other words, it was developed by Trial and Error.
In 1967, Herman Kahn developed a framework to think about the future in the book titled The Year 2000– A Framework for Speculation of The book listed about 100 technologies that would be implemented by the year 2000. Many did not materialize (Undersea colonies, permanent lunar installation, individual flying platform, to name a few ). But it stretched the imagination to the boundaries of knowledge.
One of the metrics where we want to stretch our boundaries of imagination is increasing the rate of Applicants Flows. How can we adapt new techniques to improve applicant flow? A few are listed here, and we hope you find them helpful. Draup originally published this in November-2021, but more channels are added.
