What do you do when patients are so isolated and travel is so difficult and money is so tight that symptoms go untreated because information travels so slowly? Oh, and there’s not a dime to spare. This is the challenge faced by many rural health centers utilizing a system of community health workers who travel [...]
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Physics and Ideation: Creativity and Mismatched Socks
I’ve been thinking about lessons we can take from the physics community to more successfully develop ideas — and I’ve been wearing mismatched socks. I blame Louisa Gilder and her wonderful exploration into the weird path physics took towards accepting entanglement over the past century. In 1964 John Bell lit a small fire at the [...]
Fear, Banking and Bring On The Wolves
Could the current financial crises be explained by a lack of lions, tigers and bears? Could real fear be the key attribute that drives your next success? Ideas from strange places: I found myself asking these questions as I read “Where the Wild Things Were,” a gripping account of predator/prey dynamics.
Open Source Banking – Dutch Widening The Crack?
I like the idea of open source banking. Today’s roiling financial markets are creating opportunities for technology and new capital sources to rewrite how money flows. By pushing for an open source model we could end up with advantages driven by transparency, networking, and robust testing of business models. So what happens when banks actually bid on [...]
Time For Open Source Banking
By taking the banking system Open Source we can provide all the benefits of the mega-banks while limiting the dangers that they now present.
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