# Protocol Pulse IV

*Das Protokoll ist gut!!*

By [Roots & Rooks](https://paragraph.com/@rootsandrooks) · 2024-01-30

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### Novus Protocolus

*   Army members’ faltering fitness levels spur [update to training protocol](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/physical-standards-falling-army-introduces-new-fitness-protocol-9132083/).
    
*   [Das Protokoll](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-66896-2#bibliographic-information), a collection of essays on protocol studies, was published in German by AdminiStudies last year (not new, but newly found).
    
*   Medical trial protocols are strict and unwieldy. Could [hard-coding them](https://www.clinicalleader.com/doc/digitizing-the-clinical-protocol-small-steps-for-seismic-change-0001) unlock a revolution?
    
*   Protocols for Organizations, an open-participation project to surface protocol case studies in business, government, and society, launched a [wiki site](https://www.notion.so/Protocols-for-Organizations-4777542fef8d4427b59a70fa51d952c2?pvs=4).
    

### Other Things I Liked

*   The [recommended reading list](https://ifearthosebigwords.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/the-sims-a-reading-list/) hidden in The Sims user manual.
    
*   A [scathing analysis](https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-intellectual-rot-of-the-industrially-necessary-university/) of the American higher education system from Epsilon Theory.
    
*   A bike with [triangular wheels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFa77G9HTj0) (the superior form of transportation).
    
*   Intel’s ad about standards nerds being heroes (from [Amateur Technology](https://davidlang.substack.com/)).
    
*   And, not that I like it, but Neuralink had its [first human trial](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/30/neuralink-musk-first-human-brain-chip/).
    

“Information is a difference that makes a difference.”

\- Gregory Bateson

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*Originally published on [Roots & Rooks](https://paragraph.com/@rootsandrooks/protocol-pulse-iv)*