Health and Wellness

Apple says it is okay to use disinfectant wipes on your iPhone. If you have a screen protector on your phone, make sure that the alcohol content in your disinfectant wipes won’t mess it up. Continue Reading →

Several of my clients are instituting an A-Team/B-Team strategy starting this week. The goal is to reduce the density of office workers and put additional distance (social distancing) between the workers. Desk assignments are modified to provide the recommended distance between co-workers. Continue Reading →

Good luck finding name-brand hand sanitizer in a store or online. The good news: you can easily make it at home. Here’s a low-tech hack. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about how big tech is handling the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and what they might be able to do with the data on Fox 5 New York's Good Day with Kerry Drew and Bianca Peters. Original Airdate: March 3, 2020 Continue Reading →

After speaking to numerous infectious disease experts over the past few days, I'm starting to wonder: is our reaction to COVID-19 the exact reaction an adversary in an information war would hope for? Said differently: is the COVID-19 story the Information Age Pearl Harbor we've been expecting? Continue Reading →

Facebook has cancelled F8 and is banning ads that mention coronavirus if they attempt to "create a sense of urgency" around the virus or promise to cure it. Continue Reading →

There have been calls to break up big tech. People are scared that without regulation, we are destined to live in a “surveillance state.” But people are also scared of coronavirus (COVID-19). Is this the moment that big tech proves that big data can be used for the greater good? What is big tech’s role in the fight against coronavirus? What should it be? Continue Reading →

CNET reports that Facebook may soon start hiding likes on News Feed posts. The company already tested a similar move on Instagram in August as a way to help break users' fixation with getting likes on their pictures. This is a spectacular idea. Everything about it will be better for everyone, except... are we not so addicted to the endorphin rush caused by accumulating likes that we will see it elsewhere? Continue Reading →

I hit rock bottom in April 2013. My weight had ballooned to 252 lbs., and eating had become a compulsion. I hated the way I looked and the difficulty I had moving around, and I especially hated the way I felt. I had tried everything (or so I thought) and had a 100 percent failure rate. But, luckily for me, 2013 was the height of the quantified-self hype-cycle, and there was no end to the number of fitness trackers and health and wellness apps coming to market. I started a journey. Continue Reading →

The Microsoft Band is a great hybrid device between a fitness band and semi-smartwatch. Continue Reading →