Even Trump’s Critics (Unwittingly) Use Racist Tropes
In the days since the attempted coup in Washington DC - which Azimuth Social Research advisor Chuck Call aptly dubbed a "self-coup" - many commentators have used the events as an opportunity to unwittingly denigrate countries with lower per capita incomes and darker...
Wonderful T1D Civic Groups Worldwide
I've written before about Life for a Child, an internationally focused charity based in Australia that supports some 22,000 kids and young people worldwide with Type 1 diabetes. The group sends local partners supplies of insulin, syringes, blood testing equipment, and...
Managing T1D in low income countries
After my 2-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in early 2009, months passed before the fog of fear and uncertainty began to lift. His pancreas wasn’t ever going to produce insulin again, and he’d always, throughout his life, be dependent on insulin...
T1D parents standing together
Wherever I go in the world, I feel a special bond with other people in the Type 1 diabetes community. The connection is especially strong with other diabetes parents, but I feel it with other members of the community as well - children, aunts, uncles, physicians,...
How to Build a Brand
The concept of a brand and a logo are often conflated, and it’s not particularly surprising why. The origin of the idea of brand comes from cattle rustlers and how they would brand their livestock, marking it as their own. A logo often represents the first thing...
Un-Lived Lives and Tame Fantasies
As we grow older, the menu of possible life choices grows narrower, our range of possibilities shrinks, and we become more and more locked-in to whatever life we are living. There are still decisions to be made and alternatives to pursue, but the “anything is possible” period of our lives, which we may have been lucky enough to have had, is forever gone.
A Free Spirit in the Corona Age
Yesterday, I had a private online French lesson with an Afro-French man living temporarily in Mexico. The teacher - let's call him Francois - said he was divorced, and had therefore decided to travel the world without fixed abode. I didn't ask whether he had children....
Americans subsidize insulin for others
The cost of insulin has skyrocketed over the last decade, as anyone involved in the diabetes business knows. According to one authoritative study published in 2018 by the American Diabetes Association's "Insulin Access and Affordability Working Group," the price of...
The Steps to Starting a Business
One of the promises of living in America is the notion that enterprise is available to everyone. We all have the freedom to choose to be entrepreneurs: to see if our own skills, fortitude and ideas can sustain our lives in a level marketplace. There are plenty of...
More credentials, or straight to market?
One of the biggest challenges I'm facing as a brand new business owner is the decision as to where to place my energies: should I be taking courses, workshops and doing self-study to learn new skills and earn new credentials, or should I just trust that after...