On Building Git for Lawyers

This person is 100% correct that git will never see adoption outside the tech industry.

My partner worked as a veterinarian for several years, and it was fascinating to see how vets use computers. These were brilliant people - I knew three who did literal brain surgery. But they just had zero patience for computers. They did not want to troubleshoot, figure out how something worked or dive deeper. Ever. They didn't care! They were busy saving the lives of people's pets.

It was a good reminder there are many smart people who do not know computers work and do not care to. A good startup acknowledges this reality.

Current 3rd-year vet student here.

I think there are two principles at play here. First, I suspect that veterinarians that go into practice as a whole prefer physical manifestations of their intelligence rather than abstract intangible prizes. This is similar to my story of starting vet school after doing bioinformatics.

Second, computer tinkering is similar to shade-tree mechanicing. I drive a car. I even know how to change my oil and can look up how to replace the alternator if I need to. I don't get much satisfaction out of working on my car, though, so I outsource (when I can afford it) to allow me to focus my time on things that drive my professional life forward or are pleasurable.

Add to these that current vet medical records software sucks, and it leads to extreme impatience, and even an expectation that computers don't work, and the cycle continues.