Health
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Dazeday
Some unfair comparisons I’m polyamorous about college towns. Having lived in or beside Greensboro (Guilford, UNCG), Chapel Hill (UNC), Durham (Duke), Palo Alto (Stanford), Santa Barbara (UCSB), Pasadena/Los Angeles (Caltech, et. al.), Cambridge (Harvard, MIT, Tufts, et. al), New York City (NYU, Columbia, et. al.), and Bloomington (Indiana U), I’ve been spoiled by book stores Continue reading
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Everwhen
Of course they do 404 Media: Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit. Here it is. Look at it this way: personal privacy is a vacuum in the digital world, and will remain so as long as we're naked there. Surveillance will fill that vacuum. Inevitably. Constantly. Continue reading
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Flursday
Might do the same for you In The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis, the latest episode of the Founders podcast, David Senra compresses by Sebastian Mallaby's book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, into 55 minutes of pure inspiration. Not just because Demis is a hugely inspired and driven dude, but Continue reading
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St. Patrick’s Spleen
So here's one Iain Henderson: If I Had a Place to Stand and a Lever I Could Fix The Internet … Excerpt: "Endless positive possibilities become possible when we move beyond the weaknesses in the current architecture, and build genuine digital capability on the side of the human." But I still miss the damn thing My spleen Continue reading
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Stun Day
But their work has not My photos on Flickr (here and here) have had more than 20 million views. The photo with the most views is this one (above) with 83,000+ so far. It was shot with a camcorder to accompany a conversation I was having with somebody about gold crowns and inlays, of which Continue reading
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Moan Day
Cycloptery Seventy-two hours since my cataract surgery, and nothing is better. The cornea of my left eye is still swollen and I'm essentially blind (meaning my vision is 20/infinity. It also feels better closed than open, which I'm not sure is a good thing. I'm still wearing a bandana over it. My surgeon says relief Continue reading
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Eye Day
Cyclops time. Thirteen years ago, when I was entering my final demographic, I had the cataract in my right eye replaced. It was a quick and easy procedure that left me with 20/10 vision when I walked out the door of the surgery center. It’s still that sharp. Which is good, because this morning I Continue reading
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Wedmessday
Be ready the next time the Sun burps It was overcast here in Indiana, but there is a good chance that auroras were visible the last couple of nights where you live, thanks to a big coronal mass ejection. Examples: Arizona, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Long Island, Texas, Brazil (see the “south Atlantic anomaly,” here). Your Continue reading
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Paths
We’re in the phone book! We’re real now! MyTerms now has a YouTube channel. The one item there, so far, is a short and remarkably good NotebookLM summary of my hour-long talk, The Case for MyTerms, at Indiana University. Also, Gemini failed. I still don’t know who she was. I think we could have powered two Continue reading
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Overhearings
Strange but true enough. Why I've been farting less in 1996. From the Undersecretaries of Overstate. My phone bings with notifications from my weather apps saying there is a Dense Fog Advisory in effect—just as the clouds part and vanish, opening a clear blue sky and a bright new day. Where weather forecasts used to Continue reading
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Movements
Really. Click on it. This is scary. Via Wndy.com. Windy’s views are the best. Watch the storm activity here: I suggest rocketing his ashes into space. I’m still shocked and sad to know Dave Täht has died, but I only have one source of information so far, and it says nothing about where and how Continue reading
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The Health Care Mess
My wife and I are moving upward through The Final Demographic. Productively: working, traveling, doing stuff. But we are dealing with some of the usual infirmities required by aging, which means we are intimately involved (mostly in very slow motion) with what we generously call U.S. health care system. And, of course, discussions about it. Continue reading
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Burning to Write. And Vice Versa.
Among all artists, writers alone suffer the illusion that the world needs to hear what they have to say. I thought that line, or something like it, came from Rollo May, probably in The Courage to Create. But a search within that book says no. ChatGPT and Gemini both tell me May didn’t say it Continue reading
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Hah?
Even though I have tracking turned off every way I can, I still see ads for hearing aids all over the place online. I suppose that’s because it’s hard to hide when one occupies a demographic bulls-eye. They’re wasted anyway because I’ve done my deal with Costco. Consumer Reports top-rates Costco’s best offering, and that’s Continue reading
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TheirCharts
If you’re getting health care in the U.S., chances are your providers are now trying to give you a better patient experience through a website called MyChart. This is supposed to be yours, as the first person singular pronoun My implies. Problem is, it’s TheirChart. And there are a lot of them. I have four (correction: five*) MyChart accounts Continue reading
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Consumers can’t help health care. Customers can.
Economically speaking, the American healthcare system is not built for patients, because patients aren’t the ones paying for it directly. Insurance companies are. See, health care in the U.S. is mostly a B2B insurance business. It is only B2C when insurance doesn’t cover expenses to the patient. And even then, insurance still pays for it Continue reading
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Oil and Water on California’s South Coast
Oil in the water is one of the strange graces of life on Califonia’s South Coast. What we see here is a long slick of oil in the Pacific, drifting across Platform Holly, which taps into the Elwood Oil Field, which is of a piece with the Coal Oil Point Seep Field, all a stone’s throw off Continue reading
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What should we call the selling of our digital body parts?
In a provocative OuiShareFest talk titled You Are the Product, Aral Balkan says this: I think we are at the point where we have to ask ourselves the very uncomfortable question: What do we call the business of selling everything else about you, that makes you who you are, apart from your physical body? And why, if this Continue reading
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The most important event, ever
IIW XX, the 20th Internet Identity Workshop, comes at a critical inflection point in the history of VRM: Vendor Relationship Management, the only business movement working toward giving you both independence from the silos and walled gardens of the world; and better means for engaging with every business in the world — your way, rather Continue reading