Anthony Gold

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Marriage, Happiness, and Death

We’ve all heard the research reports suggesting that being in a good relationship or having pets might be correlated with a longer life span. According to a study presented at the 2010 American Stroke Association’s conference, single men had a 64% HIGHER risk of suffering a fatal stroke than happily married men (http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ASA/18672).  While the [...]

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First 3 Days with iPad – Top 10 Loves/Hates

Hates: 10. No multitasking (yet) so can’t listen to Pandora and then pop out to another application. 9. Lots of great apps (see some in Loves), but still missing key ones like LinkedIn, Facebook, Skype, Yammer, etc.  Workaround to use them in regular “Safari mode”. 8. Get used to fingerprints all over the screen.  They [...]

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How NOT to Live a Life of Mediocrity

>> Thanks to Damu for the comment on my Secrets of Managing Your Advisory Board post which spurred the posting below >> It all starts with your thoughts, which often come from the influences we allow into our life.  Hence my counsel that everyone maintain their own “personal advisory board”. My experience has been that [...]

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Top 10 Tips to Land Yourself in Resume Hell

Over the past six months, I’ve reviewed so many resumes from friends and old associates out of work seemingly interested in finding jobs. I use the word “seemingly” because while I know they are sincere about finding work, you wouldn’t know it by reading their resumes.  And, the worst part is that many of these [...]

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CIO Institute and Philadelphia

Not only do I live in a great region that has some of the best universities, progressive companies, and a terrific capital ecosystem – but it also has some of the brightest technology and life-sciences minds in the world. So, when I was asked to chair the CIO Institute for the Eastern Technology Council, it [...]

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I’m Too Young For This

It isn’t hard to spot the modern day social media heroes when you look beyond the blitz of self-proclaimed “online media moguls” amassing their hordes of “friends” and “followers” anxiously awaiting the next bathroom-break posting. Last week, a few of us from Healthy Humans met one of those “real” heroes who not only has a remarkable personal [...]