Things You Should Be Reading

Hey, everybody. It’s that time again. The time to clean out a bunch of links that I’ve read and share them with you because I think you might find them interesting.

• Ultramarathon — The always hilarious author of The Oatmeal describes his long-ass run.
• Inbox 10,000 — E-mail sucks . . . and is mostly worthless. Am I right?
• The Joy of Cycling — A poster.
• Getting Bin Laden — What happened that night in Abbottabad
• The unavoidable power of compromise — The issue of raising the debt ceiling may no longer be a hot topic, but Scott Berkun’s take on the value of compromise is evergreen.
• The Growing User and the Perennial Beginner — A mental model for anyone who creates software interfaces for people of different competency levels.
• Yeah. We know. — You hate needles. We do, too.
• A pair of articles from Victoria Cumbow. In “It’s Political, and It’s Personal” she hopes you’ll encourage President Obama to attend the UN summit on noncommunicable diseases; and “A Gentle Reminder” reminds us why we need to advocate for better education and attitudes for health care professionals. (This kind of experience is why I stopped answering the phone when my insurance company’s nurses called. Bad me.)
• O Is For Outrage — Go sign the petition to President Obama, please.
• Kelly Kunik says, “I’m Not Afraid Of My Pump Being Hacked, Because Like You, I Am The Only User On My Personal Pump Network.”
• Five Ways To Solve The Diabetes Crisis With Data-Driven Design — Just FYI, Fast Company, “Solve” might be over-promising just a wee bit.
• Semifinalists in “Data Design Diabetes Challenge” tackle a major health issue in ingenious ways — The iMedicalApps people have the tone a little better.
• It’s Broken — By “It” many of us mean “the entire system around software patents.”