While the physical act of swallowing a pill is the easy part, the emotional part of getting diagnosed is felt through your body, mind and soul. The stereotypically crappy experience of our health & care system pre and post-diagnosis does not make the pill swallowing easier. At the same time…

Once again I was listening to Stephen Gate’s podcast “The Crazy One”. (Just love it!!) This particular episode with the title of “Why innovation is rarely authorized” grabbed my attention. Stephen was having a discussion with Sina Mossayeb who spent over 6 years at IDEO as a Systems Design Lead…

I have a history on my maternal side for both Type 2 and type 1 diabetes. My wife and I also have a running joke that I have been trying to lose the same 30–40 lbs (13–18kg) for the last 20 years of our marriage. I have had various A1C…

Does #data speak? I am not a scientist nor will I ever pretend I am. I consider myself knowledgeable & educated, open minded and yet strong in my visions and beliefs and with that I challenge myself and my beliefs all the time. This also might be one of the…

Importance of Importance <angry>“This is so damn important why isn’t so and so responding?” </angry> Does that sound familiar or at least resonate? …

Zoom Out For many years now my out of office always said something similar to: “While I am physically out on a holiday, my digital twin is always on 24/7/365 and you can find me on Twitter etc etc” Multitude of variations of the above message kept my mind always…

Everybody knows the somewhat cliche statement of “There is no I in Team”. We all also know that the things you can do purely by yourself (unless you are working ON yourself but even there I would argue one needs help) to full completion are limited and this is across…

I was very happy to be invited to keynote at the health track of Arctic 15 (thanks Aki and Jan). It was an amazing cross industry event with deep content but also with the best slogan ever: #ActionMatters !! The event had deal room sessions, deep and productive conversations and…

Pilotitis — the new chronic disease We have all heard about pilots.. not the flying kind, but the ones that organizations use to “try things” with startups. The hope and goal is that every pilot that is launched has a hypothesis that one can prove or disprove. In most cases…