Saturday, November 28, 2015

Don't get angry . . . and don't get even.

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Watching the recent angry back-and-forth between Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan has caused many of my friends in t...

A home for orphan wearables

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How many people do you know who've bought a Fitbit or similar device to track their exercise patterns--who have then let the whole ve...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

Ancient grains are not just old plants!

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Just in time for Thanksgiving preparation, I ran into Maria Speck the other day, and we started talking about ancient grains.  She publis...

"They really need to know"

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In her day job, Susan Hackley is chief administrative and financial officer for the Harvard Program on Negotiation, but her prior expe...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Serendipity is allowed

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How's this for a lesson plan? Serendipity is allowed . . . and even encouraged. It is a philosophy set forth by Ed Moriarty , an ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

A leadership lesson learned?

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As turmoil continues around the world, back here in Massachusetts there's been a kerfuffle surrounding Governor Charlie Baker's rem...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

How to secure more block time

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While I hate to promulgate stereotypes about any particular group of medical specialists, this short video is too good to leave without br...
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Blog roll revisions

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I've just finished editing the blog roll on the right hand side of my blog's home page.  I've deleted sites that have been inac...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Blind science

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Thanks to Brian Klepper for alerting me to this: Here's a poignant personal story about modern medicine from my friend Michael ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

A gift from Monique

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As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I'm reminded that it is almost the anniversary of Monique Doyle Spencer's...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Why, Governor Baker?

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I've worked for a lot of governors and have known a lot of governors, and I have always appreciated their need to balance what they mig...
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Sunday, November 15, 2015

I told you so

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There are a lot of terrible lessons that come from the sad case of Amy Reed and other women who have developed more widespread cancer as a...
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Measuring . . . nothing

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At his talk at Harvard last week , the Aga Khan reflected on the state of things in the world and spent a moment on the role of technology....
Friday, November 13, 2015

Listen to people you don’t like!

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The Aga Khan delivered the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture at Harvard University yesterday .  He has been a strong proponent of pl...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Bad behavior among the youngsters on the pitch

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I came across this cartoon on Facebook (with thanks to UK surgeon Isam Osman) and it prompted me to write about a trend I've noticed ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Tea: A public service message

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Unclear about whether sex is consensual? The issue is presented in a crystal clear manner in this video, compairing sex to drinking a cup...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Lo: Finance doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game

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I think we're all a bit gun shy of terms like financial engineering because of the degree to which unscrupulous or ill-advised investme...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Two masters degrees? Using college as a crutch?

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My most read blog post is one I published in April 2007, called, " For students: Don't collect degrees. " It was prompted by ...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

First they throw the flowers. Then they throw the pot.

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Please check out this new article I've written for the athenahealth Health Leadership Forum, one in an occasional series.  Comments ar...

The network you might not like

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This has been my week to discuss networks ( Internet and electricity ), but I would be remiss if I didn't spend a few moments on the n...
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