Table of Contents Two-Way Advocates Healthcare and CPG ACA Native Businesse Overguarded Patient Info Areas I See Opportunity There are too many middlemen “two-way” advocates in the health system As I started researching more into the health system, I actually became more confused the more I learned. I could not understand how certain companies could act…

One of my favorite courses in college was a business school class about leadership, and one of the lessons that stuck with me was about negotiations. There are so many tactics and psychological games, everything from anchoring to information asymmetry to calling your parents and ranting when you don’t get your way (maybe that’s just…

The title pretty much spells it out, but I’m putting together some practical advice for people that want to crack into tech (startups specifically). Most posts I’ve seen are flowery and non-specific, so I want to give more targeted advice. This isn’t supposed to be some self-marketing post or demonstration about how much I know….

When I was younger, the craziest moment in the Matrix for me was the scene where Neo “downloads” a mastery of Kung Fu. As someone who was studying martial arts at the time, it just seemed unfair (but it was something I secretly wanted for myself). But what seemed like sci-fi in 1999 is actually…

What are the first things you think about when you hear “government regulations”? In the tech community, most people associate it with “slow”, “inefficient”, or a host of not-so-nice adjectives. And compounded with companies like Uber and Zenefits using the “move fast and break things” approach to regulation, people really just see government(s) as a…

It was pretty hard to explain this one to my parents. What did I mean I was drinking dinner? What is “Soylent”? Had I absolutely lost it? I’ve decided to write this post after feeling like a broken record when I explain the reasons to people, especially since it seems to come up more frequently…

I’m fascinated with room escape puzzles. If you’re an acquaintance of mine, at some point I have probably suggested or told you we should do Escape The Room. I discovered these escape puzzles in 2013 and have gone so many times that my friends think I’m sarcastic when I suggest we do it as a…

There’s a huge push today to open computer science education and expose more people to programming, something I think is amazing and I wish it was more of an initiative when I was in school. We’re going to see many more people who are code literate in the future, and that’s exciting. But a concept…

For those of you that don’t know, I ran a music newsletter called Niktunes, which was intended to show people cool songs I had found and provide some light snarky commentary about something happening in the music realm. I unfortunately found myself short of time, and ultimately decided to shut the newsletter down, but it…

I had the chance to attend Rock Health’s Digital Health Summit, a really well-run event which brought many of the major players from all different sides of the healthcare system. I took notes throughout the two-day event, and wanted to put down some of the more overarching themes I saw come up across the different…