“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” --John Cage Question #7: Write the letter “E” on your forehead. (Go ahead, I’ll wait. You may also just trace the letter on your forehead if that’s more comfortable for you). Did you write the letter in a self-oriented [...]

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust Question #22: There is a small town that has only one street. The street runs in an east-west direction and is exactly one mile in length. The town council recently granted liquor licenses to two taverns with [...]

Next week, I'll be traveling to St. George, Utah to address the Utah Hospital Association on Why the Future of Healthcare Will Require Unlearning. One important aspect of unlearning is the embracing the art of asking a new question. To this end, did you know health care is already being revolutionized by a simple question: [...]

Blockbusters, Borders, Brittanica, and Best Buy. They all begin with the letter "B" and they are all disappearing. Surprisingly, the underlying cause of each is the same: Digitization. In the case of Blockbuster, Netflix has been digitizing movies and films for some time now thus rendering video rental stores obsolete. Amazon and its Kindle e-book [...]

The very first post I ever wrote on this blog explained the story of how I first came to appreciate the importance of unlearning. The piece (No Strings Attached) recounted the story of how I had tied my shoes "bunny ear style" for 37 years before I finally unlearned that habit and relearned how to [...]

An amazing three-minute video of a blind man using Google's self-driving robotic car: With tens of millions of Baby-Boomers approaching their senior years, there is little doubt in my mind that self-driving cars will become big business by decade's end.

Last year, I published my top ten trends in health care. Number Five on the list was "artificial intelligence." Specifically, I addressed the ability of IBM's "Watson" supercomputer to revolutionize diagnosis. Well, the folks at Memorial Sloan-Kettering have now hired Watson. If you're in the healthcare industry, I can't encourage you strongly enough to watch [...]

I really like the photo to the right. It depicts the same scene, the only difference is that on the right half of the photo the night sky is being masked by man-made light. A fitting metaphor for the modern world. Often, we are so surrounded by the modern conveniences of light that we fail [...]