Disclaimer: Natural link rot erases our digital past. I have been writing online for 25+ years, so you should not be surprised that some links on this page are now dead. Alas, I do not regularly check these links. But when I do check a link, I try to find some version you can read. Of course, you could just ask me about the link, if it’s dead.
Hacking
- Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good? [picked up by Adafruit blog and Hacker News]
- Getting into a groove with my Etsy store of marker-inspired t-shirt designs [about making shirts, store on Etsy]
- Project: God Box – tangible prayers, with a twist [featured in the Micropython on Microcontrollers newsletter from Adafruit]
- Project: Space Invaders game, in collaboration with Claude
- Last challenge project: Tree of Life, with a twist [picked up by Hackaday]
- Project: For all time [picked up by Adafruit blog]
- Looking back at a challenging challenge year [summary of a year-long maker challenge]
- Total Geekery: Data Diode Bioreactor Demo [demo built for work]
- Building another tangible experience [another demo built for work]
- Webinar: Breaking Open a Patient Monitor | A Cyber Exploration
Digital health strategy
- Oura Ring: In 2025, sticking to their knitting. In 2026, healthcare delivery juggernaut?
- Oura Ring: on therapeutics and digital biomarkers
- Addressing Medical Device Vulnerabilities
- These three insights are driving the explosion of digital therapeutics (and one serious warning)
- Healthcare innovation isn’t rocket science, but you still need to work the experience
- What tough times at Fitbit and Nokia mean for your digital health strategy [About what it’s taking to succeed in digital health]
- Nike’s usability failure on the Apple Watch exposes what smartwatches could be
- Did you do your homework before approaching hospitals with your shiny new product? [Bridging needs of provider with wizardry of tech vendor]
- What is an evidence-based strategy? [Translating market and customer intelligence into a real strategy]
- Let’s make 2017 the Year of “Prove it” in healthcare innovation [About need to backup claims in digital health]
- How do we counter the inertia of fee-for-service? [Prompted by Twine’s shift away from ACOs]
- Are pilots and zombies keeping digital health in a holding pattern? [Regarding the gap between tech vendors and providers]
- Components of a successful data analytics program [Organizational construct and phased offering of value]
Internet of Things
- How IIoT and the Cloud are Upending the Purdue Model in Manufacturing
- A New Model for Secure IIoT Connectivity
Patient engagement
- Healthcare portals: why is the value of good customer experience hard to articulate financially? [Commentary on biz models]
- Don’t forget the voice of the patient when designing systems of engagement
- Truly patient-centered: implications for health, design, and brand [Tech and patient engagement]
- What’s the healthcare equivalent of reach, throw, row, go? [Progressive level of engagement]
Cybersecurity
- Total Geekery: Data Diode Bioreactor Demo
- Webinar: Breaking Open a Patient Monitor | A Cyber Exploration
- Why Do A Medical Device Assessment, Part 5: Cracked Wide Open [last of a 5-part series on what happens in a device cybersecurity assessment]
- VxWorks URGENT/11 – When Your Reliable System is Actually a Time Bomb
- This week: toilet paper, China VPN hacked, remote video [from a bi-weekly pharma manufacturing cybersecurity newsletter I researched, wrote, and produced]
- Protecting Information Amongst the Chaos
- Windows 7 End of Life Puts Hospitals in a Pickle
- Medical Device Cybersecurity: Risk, Patching & Plutonium
- Bad Pharma Cyber Strategy: Waiting for Guidelines to Become Regulations
IBM – 2011-2014
Some posts I did on the Big Data blog. About healthcare, predictive analytics, and big data, of course
http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/author/charlie–schick (courtesy of WayBack Machine)
Molecularist (this one), my personal site, started in 2004
Lots of thoughts and comments on smartwatches (all the way back to 2006)
https://www.molecularist.com/tag/smartwatches
Here’s some writing I have done in 2016-2017 on AI
https://www.molecularist.com/tag/ai
More recent genAI posts
https://www.molecularist.com/tag/genai
And here is a set of posts on a brainwave I had on Signal and Noise in 2007
https://www.molecularist.com/tag/ramblings-on-noise
Older writing
A diligent artist or writer will keep a record of their work, creating a portfolio they can show others.
I have never been good at that. I have, somewhere in my basement, piles of the articles I wrote for print publications. What I didn’t do is keep a record of all the things I wrote online for BioMedNet’s HMS Beagle, HelloDirect, ThinkMobile, Nokia, Children’s Boston, hoping that there was some permanence to bits. Alas, all those sites are gone.
I only ever give this problem much thought when I am asked for writing samples. So I did a bit of digging for what I could find. What stinks is that most of them do not have a byline, so I hope my writing style stands out enough to convince folks I’m not just pulling a fast one on them.
In any case, below, is a list of older writing samples. While I don’t have exact dates for most of them, they stretch back to 1999 when I started at Hello Direct (I could not access my software reviews on HMS Beagle, the BioMedNet magazine).
Children’s Boston – 2009-2011 (courtesy of the WayBackMachine)
Celebrating a special birthday – One of the hardest articles I’ve ever had to write
Trying to find the right words – Follow-on article on the above post
A series of articles on a patient. Actually ties to the two articles above. She was the recipient.
Avery, Part 1 of 3: Touching everyone’s heart
Avery, Part 2 of 3: Repairing a broken heart
Avery, Part 3 of 3: Miles for Miracles and more
Help kids and create a new future
Why Fred won’t be at the Radiothon
Nokia Conversations, where I was founding Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2009 (blog subsumed into Microsoft Device Blog in 2015)
One man’s trash is another man’s problem – A tough article for me to write. A very sensitive topic, required lots of discussion with legal counsel and related corporate folks. At the time, one of our strongest articles written for the blog, showing its power as a vehicle for Nokia communications. No fluff here.
Concern for the environment – it’s in everything Nokia does
We have no taste for unethical sources of crucial minerals – Follow on post on the response to above two posts.
I also had series of link roundup articles to spark discussion.
On jumping the gap
It’s inevitable, tomorrow gadgets will be better
Thoughts on the ever-changing science and practice of making things
Telltale contrails. Discuss.
Still beating the SMS drum
Oral culture, the weight of history, and letting go of your data
Hello Direct 1999-2001 (courtesy of the WayBackMachine)
Blazing the trail in mobile and wireless, using a proto-blog (it was a blog before we called such things blogs).
Tutorial: The Important Issues When Choosing a Mobile Phone Service Provider
Wireless Web and Beyond
Commentary: Wireless Safety
Conversation with Wireless Forefather Dr. Kaveh Pahlavan
Commentary: Wireless Wandering—Leave Your Laptop Behind
Tutorial: How to Join the Wireless Data Crowd
last updated 20nov25