It occurred to me over the past week that if you were to get inside my Evernote, you would instantly learn so much about me. In some ways, the structures of our individual “clouds” say a lot more about us than any diary could. E.g., “this is how I curate”, “this is what matters [...]

  Is there a more universal desire right now than the “upgrade”? Better yet, nearly instant upgrade. It actually gives me an absurd giddy feeling. Example: This weekend, I upgraded to WordPress 3.0. The interface doesn’t look that different, but I watched the video documenting the tweaks and fixes, and felt lighter anyway. It’s a [...]

  I thought it was about time to write a post about the woes of doctor-patient email. Last week, a friend was having some issues with his phone, so his family doctor’s office couldn’t get in touch to inform him of the date of his specialist’s appointment. He didn’t know about the trouble until he [...]

How about this for an analogy? On reading that the Senate’s health reform bill has swapped the controversial “public option” for a “buy-in” Medicare option + two national private insurance policies (Washington Post), I immediately had a giddy vision of the diagram on the left from Bruce Alberts’ Molecular Biology of the Cell. This diagram [...]