Given much of my time is spent thinking about healthcare and information, tonight I decided to try to see what I could learn about the health of those around the world using information provided by Google.  The main question I wanted some insight into was what feelings people have where they don’t know why they have those feelings.  I got some interesting results (see below) – they seem to be signs of the times.  Your thoughts?

Related project: We Feel Fine

On of the many Go Pro camera videos from sunny days at Sugar Bowl

I ended up seeing about (see my SD2010 movie notes as to why this is “about”) 16 films this year at the Sundance Film Festival.  Many of the movies were pretty good (no “C” or below grades with one more movie to go).  Visitors this year included Lisa and Larry along with the usual suspects from IndieGoGo and prior year SDs (e.g. Eric, Slava, Danae, Katherine, Rob, Erica, Meera).

Some of the memories that stick out include being sick and tired, but still pushing to see a ton of movies and still hit some parties – e.g. the  “Fairway” party hosted by lawyer Jonathan (thanks!).  Fun times were also had at High West Distillery’s bar (caught up with Marc P. and his friend Matt from Chi-town).  Unfortunately the sleep deprivation and health issues caught up with me and I had to bag some of the other parties and even one of the movies (Splice).  Things winded down nicely on Sunday with a make your own pizza party at Chez Hendrix on Woodside.  For a list of all the movies I saw and my $.02 on each see my Sundance 2010 movie list.

I’ve always held the belief that we should focus on people first.  Whether in our professional or personal life, most everything we do involves people – our actions, emotions, etc. are tied to people.  Related to these beliefs, a  quote from Dick Clark (no, not the Band Stand one, the Merck CEO) resonated with me today as I was reading his comments on Merck’s recent acquisition of Schering-Plough (from the recent JP Morgan Healthcare Conference):

And certainly I use a statement, perhaps too much, that culture eats strategy for lunch, and so if you don’t get the culture right, it really doesn’t matter what the strategy is.

I couldn’t agree more.

Here’s a recent Diamond article of mine related to the cost savings and benefits associated with current state architecture:

Maintaining Current State (CS) Architecture Information – What a Waste!