Suggestion to American TV studios
The past few weeks I’ve been eagerly watching a variety of Japanese television, and I noticed something very peculiar (for an American). The few Japanese dramas I’ve seen actually end. They build to an end and then just stop. They don’t drag it out for season after season, allowing different seasons to suffer based on [...]
What is with Microsoft’s consumer electronics strategy?
Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft’s products, you have to appreciate the brilliance of their strategic “playbook”: Use the fact that Microsoft’s operating system/productivity software is used by almost everyone to identify key customer/partner needs Build a product which is usually only a second/third-best follower product but make sure it’s tied back to Microsoft’s [...]
Web 3.0
About a year ago, I met up with Teresa Wu (of My Mom is a Fob and My Dad is a Fob fame). It was our first “Tweetup”, a word used by social media types to refer to meet-up’s between people who had only previously been friends over Twitter. It was a very geeky conversation [...]
Resume/cover letter pet peeves
This may come a little late for those of you who are already in the middle of recruiting season, but having gone over in excess of 100 applications, I felt it’s my duty to at least try to make a few things clear about what I absolutely hate when I’m doing resume reads (apologies if [...]
More thoughts on the healthcare debate
If you follow this blog at all, you’ll know that healthcare policy is a big interest of mine. Given that this was the focus of President Obama’s most recent address (and that this blog is my personal soapbox) I thought I’d chip in three thoughts to the blogosphere “marketplace of ideas” on the topic. The [...]
Real Life Superhero
Like any other comic book fan, I’ve oftentimes wondered if our “real world” (that is, if we’re not all plugged into some sort of Matrix already) could house the stories from comic books. What if there were costumed crime fighters out there, taking on the injustices of the world that the government cannot (or chooses [...]
Sleepless in Medicine
Econo/politco blogger Megan McArdle explains her rationale for why we need medical resident work reform (which I’ve posted on here and here): I am a gold medalist in the macho Sleepless Working Olympics. I once worked a 60-hour shift without sleep. (Yes, that’s 2.5 days without any shuteye.) One stormy February, I put in 468 [...]
Hazing by any other name
I read a WSJ piece today about some of the backlash towards proposals to reduce the bone-crushing hours that medical residents (doctors-in-training) need to endure. Having written a previous post on the subject attacking the crazy hours as “hazing”, I was eagerly awaiting some brilliant doctor to point out why I was wrong. I was [...]
Wiki-power
A week or two ago, I had a conversation with a couple of coworkers about the use of blogs/social media to gather information about subjects (and hence justify why I spend so many hours on Google Reader). They were fairly skeptical of the ability of blogs to do the same job that the New York [...]
The Final Frontier
After a week of anticipation, I finally got to watch the new Star Trek movie on Friday in IMAX. I was a little bummed that I had arrived at the theater late (my girlfriend’s classmate foolishly chose not to take the cab with us and got lost trying to find the theater), forcing us to [...]
