Oura ring is a wonderful sleep tracker. While certainly a tad pricey, its incredibly effective at its given purpose. I didn't realize 1) how much quality sleep impacted my overall health and 2) how consistently quantifying sleep quality impacts daily decisions (working out, drinking, eating, etc). Highly recommended.
I too went deep into paintball back in the late -90's; it was one of the few 'sports' that I really took an affinity to.
Unfortunately, I was shot in my left eye with the barrel being less than 3 feet away, leaving me legally blind in one eye. It was after a game and we all had our masks off.
Being that my main skillset is/was design & web, it was one of the scariest experiences of my life. Fortunately I've continued to build a great career relying on the vision of one eye.
I've been approached a few times to speak out publicly on TV against the dangers of paintball, but have always declined. Just like anything in life, proper precautions are important and freak accidents will happen.
I would love to play again one day, but it's probably not the best idea.
It's really hard to quantify how valuable Andrew and his interviews have been to me on a personal, professional and spiritual level. Congrats Andrew, you've earned this in spades.
Not sure I agree that Marketo's business is unsustainable - clearly they want to make more headway in the B2C space; the B2B Marketing Automation market would seem to be saturated, but I would argue that there's still plenty of growth for them for the next 3-5 years, at a minimum.
As far as I can tell, ExactTarget's marketing automation capabilities vastly pale in comparison to Marketo or Eloqua, I could be wrong though.
I was totally confused reading through this the first time - it made me roll my eyes at least 5 times. Then I realized it was satirical and my faith in PG was once again restored.
Well... you still kind of need to add colors, fonts, and even pixel perfection of elements, so in essence you are still doing that extra step after the initial IA, just with a certain restriction.
Flat design certainly has it's place in the world but it's important to keep in mind that ultimately it's just another aesthetic. Distressed, Glossy, Flat, Matte, Woodsy, etc, these are all just styles that lay on top of what is good information architecture and interaction design.
It's not about flat design being right or wrong, it's more about whether it's appropriate for the job/task and audience/market.
There are good movies with special effects and good movies without special effects -- it's just a one element of the entire experience and by no means the most important.
As someone who lost vision in their left eye during their teenage years from a paintball accident, this kind of news is really, really exciting. It sounds like we're a bit far from this being viable as the patient can only see certain lights and shapes, but it's certainly a great stride.
Healthcare and Health IT are plagued with an insurmountable amount of complexity, administrative burden and draconian policies which hinder a lot of the potential for innovation.
Solutions like this are absolutely vital in getting the next generation of startups, developers, and healthcare providers the kind of infrastructure that can otherwise be cost-prohibitive.
It's really great to see someone hyper-focused on solving one part of the puzzle.
A think a key success factor to health IT really becoming a part of our every day lives is the ability for healthcare platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of input sources to create real intelligence around healthcare.
The Kinect would surely add an interesting twist on augmenting all of that data.