When the pandemic hit, we needed both grassroots and industrial-strength data platforms to effectively respond to the crisis. I have written about scrappy, patient-led data innovation. Today I want to share a broader view, thanks to a conversation I recently had with Tim Paydos, Vice President & General Manager of IBM Government. (I’m proud to disclose […]
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HealthChangers: Mark Ganz
I learn from every conversation I have with Cambia’s outgoing CEO, Mark Ganz — lucky for everyone, we recorded this latest one! Here’s a quote I loved: “A wise person once told me that the way to make progress in some ways is to think of a bowling analogy. You don’t try to knock 10 pins down […]
Zooming into each other’s homes
My friend and community colleague Margie Morris wrote a wonderful article for a clinical neuroscience journal that, with her permission, I am excerpting for a series of posts (if you missed it, here’s the first one). She writes: To meaningfully connect, we will need to do more than show up online. Now, more than ever, […]
Connecting during COVID-19
My friend and community colleague Margie Morris wrote a wonderful article for a clinical neuroscience journal that, with her permission, I am excerpting for a series of posts. My goal is to spark discussion about each of her insights. She writes: To meaningfully connect, we will need to do more than show up online. Now, […]
Signs of the times: Black Lives Matter
Sonja Sharp, an LA Times reporter, interviewed Deaf people about how they are creating and sharing new signs for this moment of reckoning and recognition. I cued up the story’s video (below) to the point at which Rorri Burton, a Black American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, shares her perspective: The sign for “your knee on […]
“For Black people, Minneapolis is a metaphor for our world.”
The following is an excerpt from the Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minnesotans, by Yeshimabeit Milner (@YESHICAN). I’m posting it as a way to amplify her voice. Please click through to read the entire essay. If you share it on social platforms, please share her Medium post directly. We at Data […]
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