"Thanks for the comprehensive picture. It's funny that I already knew most of the story but never had knitted the pieces together to understand the WOW of scope!"
- Bob Finch
"Since Fuelband does not track sleep cycles like the Jawbone Up does, I think a lot of people will get more benefit out of the Up. Now, I would not have been able to write that had I not experienced the benefits of sleep tracking and had I not happened to get my Up as a gift just a week before having a formal sleep study done. Those of us approaching middle age certainly will get more out of the Up than we will the Fuelband. My Up sleep-tracking results, while obviously not as detailed as those provided after being all wired up in a clinic, proved to me that the Up can be a reasonable proxy and augmenter for such studies, especially for those of us who need to clean up our "sleep hygiene," which is equally important as tracking daily activity. The big idea here is that if your sleep hygiene is poor, it's less likely that you'll actually meet your exercise goals. A side benefit is that the UP is giving me daily input as to how well my course of therapy for apnea is working. It is..."
- Bob Finch
"This blog post is spot on! What's amazing is the "Backlash of the Luddites" it inspired. I'm making the response threads required reading for those who want to learn how "near-future unemployables" think. If you're younger than about, say, 55 years old (maybe even 60) and a Google search for you comes up blank you will likely learn harshly in the last years of your working life you will have no place to work. The big issue here, one that is too often left out of the discussion is this: All of the new apps, tools and devices represent a conglomeration of ideas that people have put into form. Facebook just added a new one: The Timeline. The communication tools we will ALL be using in business ten years from now will all have their genesis in the component parts of tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, G+, Tumblr and a host of others, along with the new ones being coded as I write this today. Having a practical business understanding how they work, and can be made to work in various..."
- Bob Finch