Vitruvius and Post-it Notes
I love Post-it Notes. I’ve written about them before (Sticky Notes: A Simple “Idea-Capture” Technology), but some things are just so fabulous it’s OK to write about them more than once. Consider the famous quote by the Roman Architect Vitruvius: Firmitas,...
Twitter and The Oxford English Dictionary
The online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is my go-to resource whenever I want to dive deeply into a word's meaning. Why? Well, here’s one of several reasons: In their word usage sections, the OED is not afraid to use examples from Twitter. For example, consider the...
Why I Blog Every Single Day
I’ve blogged a few times about my approach to blogging (Ex: Who Am I Blogging For?, My Photography-Blogging Relationship, Blogging For Myself), but it’s not until recently that I have been able to clarify why I have been blogging every single day for the last...
Innovation for $148.82
I believe that innovation doesn’t always come with a high price tag. Sometimes all it takes is putting together existing tools and relationships in a new way and then taking action. Here’s an example I am currently working on. At a recent medical conference on...
Covid19 Travel Dibs
My last trip was to San Francisco in February 2020 as a Medical Advisory Board member for a healthcare tech startup. Masks weren’t yet a thing, but elbow bumps had just started. So, effectively, I haven’t traveled out of state for over a year, and I am getting...
Wicked Problems And Vending Machines
Years ago, at the large, high-quality healthcare organization at which I was working, I proposed that we should consider removing (or drastically modifying) the junk food vending machines at the organization's various sites. My argument was rather simple (and...
What’s the Best State For Physicians To Work In?
Here's a slightly edited post based on one I wrote for The Mayo Clinic Social Media Network a few months ago: What's the best state for a physician to work in? Here's some starting point links on how each state shapes up in terms of physician friendliness. Cost of...
Doing One Thing Well
I love tools which do one thing exceptionally well. The photo above is of a pair of 3M Optime 101 headphones which do one thing exceptionally well: noise reduction. Sure, they aren’t “noise-canceling,” and they don’t play music. They also aren’t stylish or "cool.”...
Who Am I Blogging For?
Who am I blogging for? From one of my favorite writing books: You are writing primarily to please yourself, and if you go about it with enjoyment you will also entertain the readers who are worth writing for. If you lose the dullards back in the dust, you don’t want...
Microsoft Surface Hub: What If The Exam Room Was The EHR?
I just ran across a nice Microsoft podcast, The New Surface Podcast Series!, by Alfred Ojukwu (@alojukwu). It reminded me of an idea I presented to some Microsoft folks years ago: What if, by using the Microsoft Surface Hub, we made the exam room the EHR? This...