Judith Rodin was the first non-interim female president of an Ivy League university, serving as the seventh president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2004. During that time the university tripled its endowment, doubled its research funding, and rose from 16th to 4th in the U.S. News & World Report college ranking. She was, at [...]

I absolutely love GoodReads as a social networking site for book nerds, but their formatting for reviews is supa ugly. So, despite my all out war against cross-posting and duplicate content, here is my review of Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero, maybe the best book I’ve read all year. You can see other books I’ve read, am [...]

Back in Bellagio This is not where I expected to be, back at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center for the third week of the eHealth conference. I made a mistake regarding my Indian Visa (as in not having a valid one), so my flight to Delhi is now delayed for at least seven days and the conference [...]

People resort to pathetic tactics to attract members of the opposite sex. Look what was witnessed not long ago in Italy: Can you believe it? All that care – the dog food, the pooper-scooper-upper, the chewed-up shoes – just to initiate a little public flirtation. What is most absurd about all of this? That it [...]

It’s true, my favorite Pepperidge Farm cookies were always the Milanos, the mint ones. Paul Graham wrote an interesting essay in May about those social pressures that cities like to whisper into our ears. Manhattan tells us to make more money, he writes, and Cambridge tells us to read more books. What does Milan whisper? [...]

M.D. Leaves Profession to Blog Last week one of the most emailed stories on the New York Times website was about a medical doctor who traded in his profession for a more lucrative one: blogging. No, Arnold Kim M.D. does not blog about kidney diagnosis, his specialty, but rather, rumors about future Apple products. His [...]

Karl Brown, Associate Director of Applied Technology at Rockefeller and one of the main organizers of the Making the eHealth Connection conference. In 1889 American steel baron Andrew Carnegie published an essay titled The Gospel of Wealth. The essay makes what was then a radical argument: that wealthy monopolists give the majority of their money [...]

If not now, at some point in your life you have probably subscribed to at least one magazine. For example, in the past I’ve subscribed to Harper’s Bazaar, Cycling, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. Here is how the business model works: I pay money to subscribe, the company which publishes the [...]

Los organizadores de la conferencia “Haciendo la Conexión de eSalud” han estado haciendo un trabajo asombroso de actualizar el sitio web de la conferencia, el blog, y el wiki para compartir las conversaciones ocurriendo aquí con el resto del mundo. Uno de las secciones más valiosas del sitio contiene una serie de entrevistas en vídeo [...]

The organizers of the Making the eHealth Conenction conference have been doing an amazing job updating the conference website, blog, and wiki to share the conversations happening here with the wider world. One of the most valuable sections of the website contains a number of video interviews with participants. There also video excerpts of keynote [...]