In the ongoing WebMD saga, they've now renamed the company to Emdeon with a focus on business services (coming from the transaction-processing business that Healtheon had acquired before it merged into WebMD, limiting the WebMD name to the health-info portion, and done an IPO on that piece (selling off part while still keeping it as a subsidiary). Too bad the content business is still losing money. (more)

see Cargo Cult; magick

Buster Benson's Hall of Phoenixes (DailyWriting streaks): Olga Vorozheykina (#1). It is a great tool for introspection. I’ve had online journals since I was 14, but it was always about expressing myself and at some point it felt too restrictive. So writing 750 words privately was a nice change. (more)

Clothing Design with an emphasis over contemporary style vs functionality.

Mental toughness is a measure of individual resilience and self-confidence that may predict success in sport, education and the workplace. As a broad concept, it emerged in the context of sports training, in the context of a set of attributes that allow a person to become a better athlete and able to cope difficult training and difficult competitive situations and emerge without losing confidence. In recent decades, the term has been commonly used by coaches, sport psychologists, sports commentators, and business leaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_toughness (more)

Build Habits in 1,000 Steps: Our Interview with Buster Benson - Coach.me - Instant Coaching For Any Goal. Tip: Be patient when learning new habits. Habits are not tiny, they’re large. Building habits requires that you rewire your brain. A habit is not really an extension of your mind as it is an extension of your body in a lot of ways. You’re not just trying to think differently, you’re trying to change the way your brain thinks about things around a whole lot of inputs. (more)

self-improvement? habit formation?

Chronic-care e-health company. (more)

more value-driven than product strategy? cf Personal Philosophy, MindSet (more)

Rusty Guinn (Epsilon Theory) on Mental Toughness! Fashion must be the most mentally exhausting white-collar job in the world. Its very name tells you why. The industry is change, and as much as its practitioners will talk about timeless design and bucking trends, there is an incessance to the demands it places on designers and creatives. There is always a new season. Always a new thing. And it’s always better to decide what that new thing will be than to be the one responding to it. There’s another job that looks a lot like this: The life of a professional chef. I don’t know why Kate Spade committed suicide this week. I don’t know why Anthony Bourdain did the same. (more)

Buster Benson: Game theory, mindfulness, and critical thinking. I keep a list of every book I read and every passage that strikes me as worth revisiting (Highlight) (more)

Buster Benson: HOW DO WE CHANGE OURSELVES? (Behavior Change) (more)

Buster Benson: Intentionally Unoptimized. I love the Quantified Self movement, am a product manager for Twitter Analytics, love OKRs, and tend to frame everything in terms of metrics and data. At the same time, I’m a huge skeptic of data-driven culture, fitness trackers, A/B testing, and the statistics you hear about on tech blogs and in the mainstream news. (more)

Buster Benson & His Journey to Enjoymentland. He’s now busy building up a one-man show company called Enjoymentland. (more)

Rusty Guinn (Epsilon Theory): Deadly. Holy. Rough. Immediate. One of its finest books – and a short read, at that – is my first recommendation for anyone who is looking to understand management, communication and civics. The book is called The Empty Space. It’s about theater. (more)

Buster Benson: Big scary (and exciting) news! I’m quitting my job at Patreon and taking 6 months off as a test to see if I should more permanently transition from doing the thing I’ve been doing for 20 years (working in tech as an engineer, designer, or product manager) to being a “writer” and, even more generally, a “creator”. (Media Inventor)

Changers Interview #3 Buster Benson – Changers Interviews. With some time now to reflect on Budge — what’s something in that product you saw working — as in, really working — to change behaviour? Answer: That’s easy: nothing. I only learned about things that didn’t work. It was a framework built to help people find what worked for them, but it never gained enough raw material to learn the answer to its origin question. (more)

Buster Benson: A productive political discussion community? As a citizen of the US heading into the 2020 presidential election, what is the best use of my energy and time? (more)

worked at Amazon, writes WikiLogish software, writes novels (more)

The positive end of HealthCare. cf Well-Being (more)