This may be news to some of you, but apparently navigating the transition from preschool to kindergarten comes with Big Feelings that are hard to talk about but somehow seem to rear their ugly head at the exact moment that Mommy and Daddy are asking that you brush your teeth.
Said feelings, coupled with being the only child in the preschool class to have dropped a nap, led the Beastwoods to tweak the preschool schedule in our waning weeks. That has meant less time for me to devote to the lovely craft of writing and checking emails (the two tasks my son is convinced comprise the entirety of my job). I was kinda sorta prepared for this, professionally and financially if not necessarily emotionally, and have thus spent the bulk of the last few weeks juggling responsibilities, asking for extended deadlines, and wondering if I’ll ever to things on my to-do list like “organize the giant pile of papers on top of the filing cabinet. (Answer: No.)
It’s been A Lot, but it’s also been fun. We’ve taken some weekday trips to museums and playgrounds, had more time to spend at home in the morning (because free play time with 4-year-olds is No Longer Fun), and learned new things like how to make squiggly lines by typing non-words in Word. (Yes, I use Word. I will not be taking any questions at this time.) And, of course, my amazing mother in law has lent a hand. Through it all, I’ve learned how important it is to prioritize what matters – and how rarely that’s enterprise B2B content for healthcare.
Let’s get on with it.
Stuff I Wrote
- MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter: 5 ways to make agentic AI a competitive advantage when you’re an enterprise that can’t pivot the way a startup can
- Digital Health Insights: As virtual urgent care grows, health systems face an integration problem not all that different from the virtual care and urgent care problems they’ve mostly ignored up to now as well
- Digital Health Insights: Wolters Kluwer survey finds patients, clinicians embrace AI but seek reassurance they can trust it – a story bolstered by an interview with the vendor’s Chief Medical Officer
- Digital Health Insights: With UpDoc clearance, FDA sets path for care augmented by AI, offering a blueprint for how it’ll regulate technology and (as a result) how digital health companies should think about go-to-market and whatnot
- Healthcare IT Today: Leading Virtual Nursing Programs for supporting bedside nurses with admission/discharge, patient education, or medication reconciliation tasks
- Custom content for companies in healthcare tech, enterprise tech, life sciences data management, and more
Things I Did
- Nailed the most important deadline of the month: Signing up for fall swim class sessions at the local Boys & Girls Club
- Scheduled an appointment with my eye doctor, dentist, and PCP for the same week, which is good from an efficiency perspective but bad if you don’t want to feel old
- Endured some of the sweatiest runs of my life in suffocating July humidity and reinforced that this is by far my least favorite season of the year
- Somehow managed to help set up a campsite (complete with canopy) in 90-degree heat and humidity (with minimal grumbling from all parties involved) and further reinforced that this is by far my least favorite season of the year
- Watched my son have a little bit too much fun setting marshmallows ablaze in a campfire
- Get a new keyboard (and wireless mouse) after I got juuuust a little tired of my son (who’s been beginning to type) noting that the “A” key was faded on the old keyboard
- Answered questions such as “Why do I still have to go to preschool?” “What will summer camp be like?” “Why do I have to go to kindergarten?” “How many days of preschool are left?” and “When are we going on vacation again?” roughly 56 times
- Forget to take any photos worth sharing that don’t include my son’s face, which explains the hilariously awful image for this post
Happy August. The humidity’s finally breaking in the Boston area. Best luck with the first day of school for those with children. Best of luck with 5-day work weeks and actual deadlines for everyone else. Best of luck with Conference Season for everyone.
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