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The topic of home automation is getting hot and the inherent cross-section between design beauty and function is near and dear to my heart.
Stop Talking to Suits

What makes one position seem like a dream job, and another one sound like a nightmare?
Calculating the Value of Mobile
I’ve been describing what I call the “mobile imperative” for a few years now. The mobile user experience is not an add-on.
2 Steps for Better Mobile Hygiene
On your way home from work, you stop at the store to pick up some more milk. As you’re walking back to your car, reflexively your iPhone appears in your hand and you swipe through a pile of emails.
Hip Guys and Trauma Jockeys: Knowing Your Audience as a Medical Marketer

Walk around the floor of a big orthopedic conference like AAOS and you could easily think you’ve wandered into the hardware aisle at Home Depot.
Is Technology Threatening the Art of Wine Making?
Just north of Silicon Valley and just south of Napa, Fruition Sciences is using real-time sensors to monitor the hydration levels of grape vines.
The House That Tiny Built

There was a time in all of our lives when we were mayor of a miniature imaginary world. It probably was a GI Joe World or a My Little Pony World.
Embrace the Muffin Top
The plastic surgeon gently palpated my muffin top. “We can smooth this out,” he said.
What’s the Opposite of Complicated? It’s Not Simple.

If you Google “uncomplicate your life” you’ll get over 2,200,000 results; change the search to “simplify your life” you get 11,100,000.
It’s Time to Uncomplicate
Ever wonder sometimes if human beings have “over-evolved”? That maybe the cumulative innovations, over hundreds of thousands of years on this planet, have finally surpassed our ability to comprehend it all?