Fitbit’s Biggest Product Flub
How Fitbit’s decision to combine the activity tracker and band into one integrated unit forced product mundaneness On the heels of Fitbit’s IPO announcement »
Applications of Decentralized Case Reporting in the Ebola Epidemic
A proof-of-concept real-time SMS-based epidemic heatmap and case-reporting platform A decentralized system for epidemic case reporting is a more efficient alternative to the existing hierarchical system »
Apple’s Beats Acquisition
How Apple is using cash to pay off risk. There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Apple’s Beats Acquisition—at $3.2 billion, »
Deploying an Existing Django App to Heroku on a Mac
Because the tutorial almost, but didn’t quite, work. The Django tutorial Heroku provides ALMOST worked. I ironed out a couple crinkles when I went through »
A Radical Plan to Improve Real Human Interaction
With real-life examples from college life and airports We live in an age that is both more connected and more lonely than ever. I am not »
On Women Hating Their Bodies
Biological and psychological underpinnings It’s very rare to find a woman without body issues. That is not to say that they do not exist; they »
Ethics of Humanitarian Aid
An ecological argument that some types may not be sustainable There is a common misconception among first-world residents that all humanitarian aid of any form, must »
How to save Windows Phone
Microsoft, make licensing Windows Phone OS dirt cheap or watch it die. Windows Phone OS has failed pretty abysmally, with global usage hovering around 3% compared »