Over the years I’ve been asked by different educational institutions to teach (Dartmouth) or guest lecture about the topic of wearables, digital health, and other interesting modern-day topics. Recently a high school physical education teacher reached out to me with questions from his kids who were studying my work. It’s never too early to talk to your kids, friends or family about your digital body.

I’m experiencing much doubt in the response to this situation beyond health outcomes. I have documented my journey and sharing some tools below if you’re a small business person, independent contractor or were recently laid off of a “real” job. I’ve included my situation and how I’m dealing with each of the pieces. From the CARES ACT through unemployment and bankruptcy. Here is your guide.

From the Wall Street Journal this week two stories surfaced this week about the technology in our lives, First David Pierce’s “Every Gadget and App Should Have a Dark Mode” and Christopher Mim’s “The Hot New Channel for Reaching Real People: Email”

Nothing in these stories is new, earth-shaking or essential for being alive today, but they do herald a bigger movement, the movement to accept technology and find ways to work with it in your life.

Do you ever feel like your entire life is on a schedule

Can you sense people in a hurry or feel them standing behind you in lines at the store?

How often can you sense someone in a hurry from just an emoji or the lack of a response in a text message?

Are there times when you feel you have to optimize your every move, just not to be run over by the

Who could have seen that people would use their phones for Health informations, Credit Cards, Interfaces to their cars and homes?

How could we have known that people would be using their phone not to make calls, but to take photos and videos that would instantly disappear because we preferred it that way?

When the iPhone came out Facebook had less than 100 million people on their platform, today that number is closer to 2 Billion. 

The morning started with mediation and breakfast before heading out to a few appointments.

First stop, the bank where I needed to exchange Euros for US Dollars and get some additional cash for the weekend.

Inside the branch my teller, Derek inquires "Do you have your ATM Card, it would be quicker for you"

As Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook march steadily toward the health ecosystem it's time we turn our attention toward three emerging trends that will shape tomorrow’s marketplace.

No tech product, device, application or service will not have a health component within ten years. By 2025 technology like food revolution of the 70's and 80's will be labeled and regulated. Also like food many people will continue to ignore the warning labels and many nations will be forced to step in and regulate our intake of information. 

Many people know me as the world’s most connected human, wearing gadgets, measuring everything I do.

But what journalists never captured, the measurement I've not made public, is how that data helps me explore my suffering and map my sorrow