2 Million users engaged with Fitbit's Female Health within the first month of launch! That's pretty amazing! So proud of Fitbit and our teams who made Versa & Female Health possible. Launching Female Health category was one of the most exciting (and possibly most challenging) work my team did at Fitbit. Women's health, menstruation, fertility, and pregnancy are not the easiest topics to discuss day in day out in the executive meetings and with the male and female colleagues. I'm glad we did all of those and got the support needed internally to build something high value for our customers who really wanted the information about their cycles to be part of their overall health and wellness picture. Big congratulations to two members of my team Chun Pan , who seeded this project, and to Allison Wu , who laid out the vision and made it happen. #femalehealth #productsuccess #healthandwellness …see more

Western medicine or Eastern medicine? Why do some of us trust an aspirin more than acupuncture to treat a headache or to control pain or to minimize nausea? Why choose a pharmaceutical over a biologic? Especially when there is hard science to show that acupuncture (say) is as effective? I was on a long bus ride recently and a passenger got very nauseous. Another passenger was a practitioner of acupuncture and “treated” the “patient” while we were on the road! Talk about an ‘alternative delivery vehicle!’ And yes, the passenger felt better. #acupuncture #altmedicine …see more

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi shared with us how network science contributes to the fight against COVID-19. The first remarkable achievement of his research lab was compiling a list of promising drugs to treat the virus within less than 10 days. Even The Medical Futurist team was surprised to learn about the extent of network medicine's power, I hope you can learn from it too! #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #COVID19 #COVID_19 #coronavirus #networks #networkscience #networkmedicine #BarabasiLab …see more

Re below and, importantly, with absolutely no disrespect whatsoever for Elliott Management, it's increasingly as if you are a nobody in investment management unless you have SPACs. I wonder if this will prove yet another one of those innovations that goes way too far initially in terms of both over-production and over-consumption. #markets #spacs #investment #economy #investing #investors …see more

From CNBC #markets #investing #investors @GoldmanSachs #gme #GameStop Robinhood #robinhood …see more

The DXY dollar index is notably lower this morning as markets internalize the Fed's unambiguous re-affirmation of the lower-/looser-for-longer policy stance. #economy #markets #fx #foreignexchange #investing #investors #centralbanks #fed #federalreserve #markets #dxy #dollar …see more

The link to this morning conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC ... including both the immediate and wider implications of the recent surge of market inflows from retail investors and the role of "technicals" going forward. Thanks Andrew, Becky Quick and Joe Kernen for having me on Squawk Box. https://lnkd.in/g59Dqcp #investing #markets #stocks #investors #equities #cnbc #economy #bonds #investmentmanagement #assetallocation #fed #stockmarket #centralbanks #fixedincome #federalreserve #volatility #interestrates …see more

An interesting conversation with Becky Quick ... on the decoupling between the economy and financial markets, the Fed put and what to look for as economies re-open. Thank you Becky, Andrew and Joe for having me on Squawk Box. #economy #markets #investing #investors #instafinance #cnbc CNBC …see more

‪Here’s another once-unthinkable chart -‬- this one from BBC News for UK growth this quarter. It’s not just the levels ... not seen since the Great Depression, but also the range of uncertainty. Point of all these charts: important to be humble about our ability to quickly internalize what all this means, as well as predict well what’s still ahead. #economy #uk #bbc #coronavirus …see more

Here’s the truth: you can’t fail as a kid. I sometimes get messages like, “I’m 23 and I failed and now I don’t know what to do.” A) No, you didn’t fail. B) Yes, you do know what to do. …see more

I see so many BS motivational speakers, business-inspired books, coaches, and even Wall Street people use so many techniques of a con man. Here are the 10 techniques of a con man to watch out for... …see more

The Senate receives articles of impeachment against Trump, Mexican President AMLO tests positive for covid, and Biden reopens diplomacy with the Palestinians. My thoughts on this week's biggest political news. #StayInformed …see more

Do a time audit to examine how and where you allocate your time. When time is your greatest resource, you want to be absolutely sure you’re putting it to the absolute best use. Here’s how to do your time audit: open your calendar, look at your commitments and meetings, and ask yourself these questions: How does this time spent align to a goal or strategy? Is there time for me? Is there any open space for thinking and reflecting? If I handed my calendar to someone outside of my organization, could they tell why I was hired and what I’m supposed to do? Have you ever done a time audit? What did you learn? …see more

Thanks for all the responses to the Zero to Infinity Podcast Cover Art design! Here are several concepts I'll be covering on the podcast based on requests I've received so far. Comment below your thoughts on the topics and let me know what else I might have missed / you want to want to learn in 2018! 👇 Forming Your Round Table: Mentors and Why They Matter The Resume That Never Sleeps: Designing a Personal Brand With Purpose Beyond Yourself: Why Leaders Are Givers Not Takers Your Career Inventory: Embracing Your Identity, Resources, and Skills A Career Beyond a Job Title or Degree: Discover Your Super Powers Work Experience and Education Are Table Stakes: Leading With Rapport Why Goals Don’t Work: Set Themes Instead Of Resolutions in 2018 Adversity and Challenges: How To Incorporate Them Into Your Narrative …see more

Three years ago, I launched my podcast about #writing, Write With Impact. One of my very first guests to actually say "yes" to my invitation was Isabelle Roughol , Director and Senior Managing Editor, International, at LinkedIn. When we recorded this, Isabelle was enjoying her time in Sydney, setting up their editorial operations there. While the LinkedIn community has mushroomed to over half a billion souls and millions of posts since then, the advice she shared with me then about writing on LinkedIn is still very much applicable today... (and yes, that really was Isabelle's LinkedIn profile photo back then!) …see more

There should be a long German word for feeling like you know somebody intimately that you've never met. ( the effect of reading people's tweets / updates but having never met )

So much of our future is limited by the fact the world is constructed on the foundations of the past. It’s not just the commonly discussed things like COBOL code in banking, it’s that every aspect of life is based on industrial revolution style thinking. Education is about compliance and conformity, Health insurance comes from an employer, we are taxed based on the idea we create value in a place. The world assumes you have one residence, it assumes you retire when you body becomes to weak for manual labor. It’s all so bafflingly archaic, limiting and rarely discussed. …see more

There is such a strange phenomena on Twitter at the moment where some people seem to have a strategy of just posting the most shocking, depressing & hopeless stories they can find. All day. Every day. Oh to be someone what wakes up to post about fires in Chernobyl, then "Murder Hornets are coming", then "new reports of baffling sickness in kids", then "New York paralyzed under freak snow in May", they get to post about the horrors of people who are working, the horrors of those who are not, The shocking threat of food supplies under threat, and the horror of working in food processing plants. They post unemployment figures shooting up as a graphs overlaid with sad music, then post the awful videos of terrible people who want to open up their State. They post the claims that stores won't be coming back soon, the reports of sad empty flights showing airlines won't make it, and the awful flights that are too crowded. They share that super spreaders are everywhere, that contact testing is the only way ahead, and then post that Government's are taking away our freedom & moan that some testing centers are empty and its wasteful. Then they tweet their cheer for healthcare workers at 7pm, because we need hope & "we're in this together" Why do people need to behave this way? …see more

Always remember: When the going gets tough, just wait a year. I can tell you the story of my past 12 months using badges, a baggage claim and a bag. From an "out of the blue" LinkedIn freelance job during the October 2017 Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) Fall Camp in #HotSprings , #Arkansas to a December trip to #Tokyo , #Japan for the #UniversalHealthCoverage Forum, to a National Geographic Magazine story assignment in May in #Washington , #DC , to a July reporting trip to #Hargeisa , #Somaliland , via #Nairobi , #Kenya , to the August National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in #Detroit , #Michigan , to the September Maternal and Infant Health Summit hosted by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser AND the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation #Goalkeepers Event In #NewYorkCity , during United Nations General Assembly Week...and back to #JAWS Fall Camp at #MtHood , #Oregon in October 2018. Keep going. Keep the faith. You never know what opportunities tomorrow might bring. Until they arrive, use the time to make sure you're poised and prepared to take advantage of them. #persistence #stamina #belief #hardwork #keepyourheadinthegame …see more

Never, EVER be ashamed of your #mentalhealth story. As actress Carrie Fisher said, "I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I'm still surviving it. but bring it on.” #WorldMentalHealthDay #mentalhealthcare #mentalhealthtreatment …see more