I think of New Year’s resolutions like birthday wishes — if I tell, they won’t come true. But I’m happy to share my methods and current inspirations: My 3 words for 2010, by Chris Brogan Find a Transcending Purpose to Motivate Your New Year’s Resolution, by Vic Strecher The New Year’s Writing Resolution You Can […]
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3 big trends: networks, unbundling, smartphones
Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist, gave a talk at Le Web that touches on health, but even better, provides a framework for thinking about how technology is transforming the world in general: Pew Research has data to back up each of his points on mobile, video, dating, social networking, news gathering, education, our networked lives in general, […]
Hypothesis generator
Thomas Goetz, formerly the executive editor at Wired and currently co-founder of Iodine, interviewed me about the work I’ve done and hope to do. I like his description: my research is a hypothesis generator. I told him some news I haven’t shared publicly before. Full text of the interview: Susannah Fox doesn’t have all the […]
A genomic literacy spiral?
Like many people, I’m intrigued by the 23andme drama. Here’s a quote I scribbled down at Health Foo: The data and genomics revolution is akin to the print revolution. Hundreds of years ago, peasants looked at this converted wine press and asked why we need more Bibles when nobody can read. The printing press triggered a […]
A tribute to Mary Jo Deering
Mary Jo Deering is retiring after 27 years of public service in health. I contributed the following to a “history book” about her career so far: When I was first starting out as a researcher, back in 2001, Mary Jo invited me to meet with her and her team at HHS. She guided me toward […]
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