Thanks to a tweet from Brian Ahier, I’m re-reading Internet Health Resources from 2002. It was the first time we’d done extensive online fieldwork in addition to national phone surveys, yielding stories like this one: One mother told how, when she suspected that her daughter had a serious respiratory infection called RSV, she looked it […]
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“Gradually, then suddenly.”
– Tim O’Reilly, quoting from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Tim writes: “I love lines from literature that crystallize a notion, and then become tools in your mental toolbox. This is one of those. Keep it handy, because you’re going to see ‘gradually, then […]
“Instead of being a futurist, you want to be a nowist.”
“By being agile and having your antennas out, you can react when you see the trend starting, rather than relying on these multiyear, multimillion-dollar analyses on the future of X. Instead of being a futurist, you want to be a nowist.” – Joi Ito in Wired
Five years on
Five years ago this month I wrote my first blog post for e-patients.net: Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion. Back then the blog was a sandbox, a way for those who knew and loved Tom Ferguson to continue the conversations we’d had with him, on the blog he’d launched just before he died. […]
Visualize This: An e-Patient’s Medical Life History
The following was originally Katie McCurdy’s response to the excellent, ongoing discussion about the future for self-tracking. It’s too good not to elevate to a post of its own — Susannah. ____________________________________________________________________________ Katie’s self-crafted medical timeline (Click to enlarge; see story below) There is some recent thought that self-tracking or data gathering is “a manifestation of […]
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