One word: triage. In medical settings, of course, triage is a way of prioritizing medical care to those who need it most — as they’re doing right now in New York, converting the Javits Convention Center into an enormous makeshift hospital. Because of the severe shortage of respirators, face masks, […]
How much is infinity? Mathematicians often spend their entire career pondering the square root of two or the endless decimals of Pi yet they often find that the concept of endless is simply unfathomable. Our brains are quite finite as are the tools we use to process information. Well, it’s […]
TL;DR: Put together a webinar in record time by recording a Zoom meeting, then saving the video to YouTube. Traditionally, webinars have been carefully planned, publicized, and produced — but in these fast-moving days, nobody’s got time for that. Enter the “Wing-It Webinar.” The quick version is: Invite a bunch […]
Another day another dismal record. This one comes from the US Department of Labor who reported that 3.28 million new people filed for unemployment this past week. That’s more than five times the previous record. I know that we’re supposed to be flattening the curve by staying home but I […]
It took a total of 167 days from the first confirmed case of Coronavirus until we reached 100,000 confirmed cases. From then until the 200,000 confirmed cases was only 11 days. It took another 5 days to reach 300,000 and then just 3 days to reach 400,000. Yesterday alone 43,733 […]
TL;DR: Our new training webinar for Coronavirus Communication in healthcare is here. How do healthcare organizations communicate about COVID-19? It’s tricky, because the principles of healthcare can be difficult to turn into effective communication. How do we reconcile the Hippocratic oath (“first, do no harm”) with the marketer’s oath (“simplify the […]
So, the reason this US spending bill is taking so long is due to an old game in Washington called ‘fill the bill’. In this game, lawmakers like to pack each and every law they pass with many different things, some of which might be completely unrelated. The idea is, […]
A post on Reddit this morning asked, “When did COVID-19 get real for you?” For most people, Coronavirus is still not “real.” If anything, it’s surreal. We’ve all been thrown into the deep end of this incredibly weird pool, and the water is freezing cold. We’re trying to keep breathing […]
In my book Blockchain For Everyone (now a bestseller), I outlined a simple method for investing in digital assets without breaking the bank. If you’re still watching from the sidelines, the new year is a great time to get invested — and to review the results of our investing strategy […]
Man, the Fed will buy anything! Over the weekend there was much discussion surrounding Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib who proposed the issuance of two platinum coins, each one worth exactly $1 trillion. Wait what?? The $1 trillion coin was first hypothesized during Obama’s response to the original financial crisis. And no, […]
