🧤 Caroline Hampton's Rubber Gloves

Many world-changing innovations don't begin as grand visions of progress — they begin as small acts of care for a specific human constraint. Here: a surgical nurse's chemical-burned hands. Her boss commissioned custom rubber gloves to protect them; only later did anyone notice infection rates plummet. And of course there was resistance — surgeons warned gloves would dull the 'sense of touch.' Which is often how improvements first appear: as threats to expertise and the way things have always been done.