Matthew's Blog
Bill Gates’ Tweeting Rate during CoVid? Stable.
About a year ago—while thinking about health organization CEOs and Twitter—I calculated that Bill Gates (the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) tweeted on average .887 tweets/day ( January 10th, 2010 — Jan 13th, 2020): Physicians, Bill Gates, and...
The Healthcare/AI Ethics Challenge: “Talk is Cheap, Show Me The Code.”
I'm going to be attending a Deep Learning Conference in a few weeks, and the preparation for it made me recall the last AI developers conference I attended—one at which the conference organizer, a talented programmer, initiated the 3-day event proudly stating the...
What Healthcare CEOs Get Wrong About Twitter
Most healthcare CEOs think of their Twitter account as a marketing tool. For example, they may think of Twitter as something their organization needs to have because all organizations nowadays have Twitter accounts, or that it's a nice place to post the...
Chop wood. Carry water.
Chop wood. Carry water. In Seth Godin’s book The Practice, he devotes a small section to the zen saying “Chop wood. Carry water.” (Shortened from "Before enlightenment: Chop Wood. Carry Water. After enlightenment: Chop wood. Carry Water.") He was discussing this in...
The Downside of Being a Healthcare “Consumer”
There is an irreversible trend for large healthcare companies to refer to patients as healthcare “consumers”. There nothing wrong with being considered a consumer when getting gas, or shopping for an iPhone, or purchasing a book on Amazon. These are impersonal...
The Opportunity Cost of The Physician Vaccination Selfie
I have no problem with physicians posting pictures of themselves getting a CoVid19 vaccination. Good for them. These photos signify hope, and I believe they act as a great visual cue for the vaccine-hesitant. But when I see their healthcare organizations...
Sticky Notes: A Simple “Idea-Capture” Technology
I love using simple technology to capture ideas, and sticky notes are one of my favorite. For example, over the last few hours, I have jotted down: Steve McConnell: buy a book on softwareMIT Innovation: Blog post about my definition of innovation vs. MITsCheck Blog...
My Deep-Reading Book For Winter
My Deep-Reading book for this winter is “Philosophy of Mind” by David Chambers. It’s the textbook used by Oxford University’s Continuing Education Course on the Philosophy of Mind. It’s a significant textbook: 675 dense pages with 63 essays, covering both the...
What Disney Can Teach Healthcare
Elsa, Grogu, and Minnie. These are three little toys I will occasionally put out on my desktop to remind me of one thing: Creativity can be monetized. Look, quite a few businesses are struggling during the Covid19 pandemic, and healthcare is no exception. But not...