Today’s fifty bits quiz comes from the YouTube video, “Walking with Sandwiches: Ben’s New Year’s Resolution.” Your job? Tell us which of the seven fifty bits design strategies Ben used to lose 100...
Author - Bob
There’s been some grumbling about how unaffordable health insurance has become under the Affordable Care Act. Most of the complaints are about the size of the deductible — how much the insured patient has to pay...
When it comes to how people take their prescription medications, there’s an enormous amount of value left on the healthcare table. That’s because for many health conditions, any one of several drugs work well. And...
Fast Company left their door open a crack, so I snuck in with a quick piece on the science of procrastination and what we can do to get past it. Check it out here.
In a previous post, I shared a recent study that suggested that half measured confessions aren’t very effective, and that only a full reboot would wipe away the guilt. But why is that the case? The answer may lie in the...
Attention is scarce; that’s the fifty bits limitation. Uber is leveraging that shortcoming in a clever way. In an attempt to reduce the frequency with which drunk passengers, Uber is experimenting with putting kids’...
Rock, Paper, Scissors is what economists like to call a non-cooperative game. That means someone wins, someone loses, and the payoff for one player’s choice depends in part on the choice made by the other player. For...
Of the 10 million bits of information our brains process per second, only FIFTY are devoted to conscious thought… and that’s just barely enough to make it through this junction!
Thanks to Leadership & Learning’s Kevin Eikenberry for his great review of my new book. Here’s how his review starts: If a book is about a topic of interest to me, I’ll probably pick it up. If the book is...
On the HIT Consultant website, James Dias posed the question, “Is the Phrase ‘Patient Engagement’ Overused?” It’s an interesting question, I suppose. But there’s a much bigger issue at hand...
