I have two dogs who think that 6:15 is a great time for breakfast, and a well-developed morning routine supporting my work, so I’m no stranger to early mornings. But this morning I’m at Stanford Video to record a segment with BBC World Service Business Daily.

Not sure when it’ll air, but when I know I’ll tweet it out!

Inc. has an article about GoPro and its struggles that includes a look at the failure and recall of the Karma drone in 2016. The drone would suddenly lose power and crash, and they were worried that at several pounds, it could do some real damage if it hit someone:

Teams of employees flew hundreds of the recalled drones above the company parking lot for weeks, and eventually learned that a simple plastic latch was coming loose, causing the battery connection to slip out of place. That meant the problem was easily fixable. But the Hero5 Black issue, too, stemmed from a lapse in quality control. The camera wall was only 0.2 millimeter thick in one spot, Woodman says, and water pressure blew it out. The real cause of both problems, he continues, was that “the teams were killing themselves to launch the products on time. We were doing too many things, and it was taking too long to make decisions because management was juggling too many projects at once.” Brown puts it more bluntly: “We knew that if we didn’t figure out some way to reorganize, the company was just not going to survive.”

This reminds me of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle, which came about after “Samsung pushed its designers, engineers and suppliers beyond the breaking point to produce the Galaxy Note 7 with multiple industry-first features” in an effort to beat Apple to market.

Dr. Resa Lewiss is a pioneer in the use of ultrasound as an everyday tool for doctors (or as they call it in the field, point-of-care ultrasound), rather than reserving it for more exotic cases: it’s a bit like treating ultrasound as like a stethoscope rather than a CAT scan. She has a TEDMed talk about the field:

How do you come up with such a novel idea? Well, if a recent piece in Academic Life and Emergency Medicine offers any guide, one of the things you do is practice deliberate rest. As Lewiss put it in a 2015 interview, we should “Never underestimate the power of nature, exercise, and the arts to inspire productivity, creativity and working smarter.”

In , I talk about innovative doctors who discover the value of deliberate rest. The great neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, for example, was an avid sailor, athlete and gardner (he had grown up on a farm in rural Wisconsin), and he made time for those things despite running the Montreal Neuroscience Institute. He was also a great advocate of active, deliberate rest: as he put it in an essay written before I was born, “rest, with nothing else, results in rust.” Likewise, the biophysicist and medical imaging pioneer Britton Chance spent 12-hour days in the lab, but spent his weekends sailing; in fact, he was so serious a sailor that he took a year off to train for the 1952 Olympics– and won a gold medal.

Anyway, it’s great to see that despite all the pressures of professional life today, there are still people who show that you can do great work and take rest seriously.