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Re: How to properly use “Likes” in Apple Music

Will — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:35:09 -0000

Has anyone found a way to tune the For You section in iTunes on desktop?

Re: My Doctor Told Me I Was Pregnant… Except, I Wasn’t

Will — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:56:56 -0000

Thanks for sharing Sarah. There is definitely something to the desensitization that healthcare workers experience, events that seem big to patients are often mundane to them—so like you said, health workers that are able to remain passionate and compassionate are amazing.

Re: Sibling Brawls And Black Metal: An Interview With Rory Culkin

Will — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:23:21 -0000

You're not wrong, but that was also a fabulous question.

Re: Verb Mill

Will — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:37:39 -0000

The question is: is this the best episode or the very best episode?

Re: Should I Raise Angel, Seed, or Series A?

Will — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:39:06 -0000

I absolutely agree re: lies, and especially the lies people tell themselves without realizing it. I'm interested though; what sorts of lies to founders tell themselves that they realize are lies?

Re: PillPack raises $8.75M more for online pharmacy service

Will — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:53:50 -0000

"There’s typically a line, so if you don’t want to hold anyone else up you’re hesitant to ask the pharmacist any questions…"

I'd never thought about this before—this is an incredibly powerful aspect of PillPack, that an online pharmacy might actually be more personal than an in-person visit to a pharmacist.

Re: Oxford University Is Older Than the Aztecs

Will — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:30:06 -0000

"The historical timeline you keep in your head is all messed up."

That's a hell of an assumption to make.

Re: Chill (at Oakland Museum of California)

Will — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:16:13 -0000

Every part of this is yes.

Re: Prime Has Connected 50,000 Health Records. Will Imholte tells us how it started.

Will — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:31:30 -0000

Thanks for the space Pete! I'm happy to answer any questions about our journey.

Re: Finding Sanity in the Healthcare Chaos: The Story of a Prime User

Will — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 20:58:22 -0000

:-) Agreed.

Re: Verb Mill

Will — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:24:56 -0000

I'm just happy there's finally a professional auctioneer to class up the show.

Re: How Prime uses Countly

Will — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:07:11 -0000

Hi everyone! Will from Prime here. Though the interview is with Owen, we'll all be happy to answer any questions here.

Re: Prime Joins Techstars

Will — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:18:59 -0000

The Sprint/Techstars Accelerator pitch day is June 12.

Re: Prime Joins Techstars

Will — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:22:44 -0000

Thanks Bob! We've had a very warm welcome to Kansas City, and are looking forward to exploring as much as we can.

Definitely check out Prime and let us know what you think, feel free to post here or email us at hi@stayinyourprime.com anytime.

Re: Prime Time: Take Control of Your Medical Records with These Apps

Will — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:52:47 -0000

Well we've had quite a few requests for internationalization, but that's a bit out of scope for us right now :-)

Our current roadmap includes some features to help users, like better navigation and improved syncing/onboarding—pretty standard stuff, though we are super excited.

More specifically we are also working on provider partnerships to help the flow of doctor to patient communication.

Re: Prime Time: Take Control of Your Medical Records with These Apps

Will — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:21:40 -0000

Howdy, I'm the chief of product design at Prime and I'm happy to field any questions about the app and our thoughts. Tuuti began the article with essentially the same story my co-founders and I had a year ago: we needed our records and it was a huge pain to get them, much less share them with our friends/family.

Re: iWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking | 9to5Mac

Will — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:50:34 -0000

Reposting/adding thoughts to a comment here, last one was flagged for linking I think.

- Validic is a company that is doing very well in this space, they aggregate existing medical device (and wearable) APIs and provide a fee-for-service standardized API. They are doing very well, and helping create an ecosystem that can actually use the data these devices are generating.

Apple entering the space would probably help them AND existing wearable companies by increasing the awareness of the product category. I doubt Apple would make a direct competitor to Fitbit or Fuelband, but even if they did it would allow Fitbit to market against something, and Apple will always take the approach of broad/mass market appeal—the existing players can still grow in the space around that.

- We (Prime) make an iPhone app that gathers medical records and helps users keep track/share important info. We've had requests for our data and our backend as an API, something which would complement Fred's proposed Healthbook nicely. We also integrated with wearables, (via Validic) but didn't see enough early traction with it to pursue it heavily at this time.

Maybe I'm too happy-go-lucky, or maybe I'm misreading the situation, but I don't see this hurting anyone in a meaningful way. Apple could certainly reframe the QS movement by entering it—but the existing players have tons of advantages they won't be able to destroy. Apple may destroy their chances of obtaining mass-market adoption, but so far my read is that they are approaching the problem differently than Apple will.

Though, I won't be surprised if we hear nothing from Apple about health for the next few years.

Re: iWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking | 9to5Mac

Will — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:11:16 -0000

As far as I know Apple hasn't charged developers for access to pools of user data. Maybe I'm missing something though? It seems like Apple would have an interest in making both the consumer app that collects/interprets data as well as provides it to devs.

Re: Human Rights Party | Noble Pioneer

Will — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:09:10 -0000

Yeah, that's mostly why I felt bad posting it. I've had a lot of passionate discussions with friends about Mill's On Liberty (and I guess I'm currently most interested in the theory of 'the tyranny of the masses' [and I'm sure like 'the god of the gaps' I am adding in an extra 'the' because it makes it more romantic]).

Re: Human Rights Party | Noble Pioneer

Will — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:42:28 -0000

"But smoking a cigarette in your home causes harm only to you."

And the people helping pay for your increased health care costs. (Sorry for the super tired example, but it's mostly fair.)

There exist very few actions with no externalities.

Re: The Blue Button Codesign Challenge | Noble Pioneer

Will — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:23:53 -0000

I think the problem is that Tyler is pointing out is that the direct result of the challenge is vaporware. It seems like a priority should be to spend the 20k building the thing you were given the 20k for supposedly having already implemented.

edit* Removed a line that didn't make any sense. Also fixed a syntax error.

Re: Will Imholte's 'Health Is Inherently Social' Presentation | Noble Pioneer

Will — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:32:56 -0000

The first thing that comes to mind is a comment from a former CIO of 'big health company' — on one slide I showed an image that is often used in Prime's marketing materials: a timeline with a user sharing the info from a colonoscopy.

It's obviously the sort of thing that I giggle about a tiny bit, but it's very intentional; Prime is about sharing serious information with people.

He mentioned that his friends on Facebook were already sharing this sort of info (I have several friends who have posted updates about going in for colonoscopies as well).

On one hand, it's likely that people are sharing this info on Facebook as a joke, which is a pretty common defense mechanism, laughing about things is a good way to make the uncomfortable easier to bear.

On the other hand, it was super rewarding to have people latch on to the idea that this information, as serious as it may be, is something people inherently want to share.

Re: Will Imholte's 'Health Is Inherently Social' Presentation | Noble Pioneer

Will — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:26:47 -0000

There were lots of great comments from the audience (and a few joke-slides) that didn't make it into this video—but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Re: About the tech backlash

Will — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:03:36 -0000

I have a somewhat limited view of this, but I think it makes some sense. (Disclosure, I moved to SF from the midwest, and then from SF to Oakland when I started bootstrapping my startup).

The people angry about the startup buses are not being displaced by the mega-wealthy in $30mm homes, they are being displaced by the $500-1000 rent increases in the areas directly surrounding the bus stops.

Re: DRM has always been a horrible idea

Will — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:12:33 -0000

I agree it's a bit fuzzier than strict copy protection on files, but Netflix streaming is only available on approved devices (and the content HDCP, no?), can't be viewed in other countries, can't be downloaded/format changed, etc. Of course that's the nature of streaming, and to me it's still a fantastic deal—but the content isn't purely open the way some files are. (Louis CK's recent comedy specials are a good example of this).

I recognize this might be wasted pedantry, your analysis is really good.