June 2011
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May 2011
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“What would happen if we didn’t invest in startups, but instead invested in...”
May 31st
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Quantified Self 2011
This weekend I had the amazing opportunity to help organize and facilitate the first ever Quantified Self Conference in Mountain View, CA. The conference was attended by over 400 quantifiers, gadget & app makers, academics, hackers and personal scientists. I had the pleasure of wrangling 40 of them who had volunteered to share lessons learned from their self tracking experiments. I’m not...
May 31st
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Healthy Food by the Truckload | Public Health →
Food trucks are all the rage these days and here is a great example of using that paradigm to improve health in underserved communities.
May 27th
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The Active Desk
Two and half years ago I took the plunge and went out an bought a treadmill. Not for exercise, not to run indoors. No, I bought a treadmill to work. Yes, that’s right. I bought a treadmill for work. I have done a lot of research and long ago decided that this was not just a good idea, it was a must-do idea. So after trading one crisp clean Benjamin for a older model treadmill, convincing my...
May 27th
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