Winter is coming, nix that winter is here…. “Winter is coming…” a phrase so etched in the collective conscious that the current pandemic illustrates that in our media saturated world that we consume content and it passes through our system with nary a nutritional benefit. In one ear and out…

Goodbye to all that (HealthTech) (with thanks to Joan Didion) *** This is a public draft to seek comments from reviewers *** It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the…

Today I saw a story on Vice about the difficulty of finding drivers for old hardware on old operating systems. Coincidentally earlier in the week on Tidbits the story was about hardware that stopped being supported by the vendor when a new version of an operating systems come out (Yes…

In my career, I tend to have found a good leading indicator of bad management and that tends to be trash talking your competitors. There are great stories about where trash talking one day leads to eating crow the next. …

The potential of Facebook Platform looked limitless when it was created. The transformation from the marketing influence “REST-like” original Facebook Platform to the more elegant Open Graph API harkened the possibility of becoming a personal history. Believe it or not, there were discussions about how the “Me” only privacy feature…

I just saw today in my news digest that the rate of opoid overdoses continues to grow and that “it does not respect state or county lines and is still increasing in every region in the United States,” as noted by Dr. …

I finally broke down and got my belated birthday/Holiday gift of an Apple Watch. When the Series 3 came out with LTE and the increasing applications of the watch for medical applications (and my current position leading product for a health care startup), it seemed now was the time to…

I was reading a Wall Street Journal article titled “An Unwelcome Tax Surprise Could Soon Lurk in Your Paycheck” on Apple News today and it struck me that the Republican Tax bill may be strategic genius for the reasons I listed below. An Unwelcome Tax Surprise Could Soon Lurk in…

LinkedIn lit up with a post by Jasmine Pak on her frustration at getting repeated rejections from many companies as she pursued her job search. Her inbox exploded with supportive messages and a few job interviews. Her story served as a motivation to write this follow up to my last…