Would you pity someone who was manipulating data by hand or an accountant calculating taxes all by hand without software or at least a calculator to help them?
What about someone manually trying to translate some text instead of using a translation service?
The other side of some manual work is that it exercises you in some way- but if there are things that'll speed up whatever it is you want to do and they are generally available, you will be pitied!
Which is peanuts in the overall costs of healthcare. At what point are you given one as part of your welcome kit? There are already health plans in the US that offer fitbits or will subsidize their cost.
The game becomes encouraging a healthier lifestyle to help people avoid getting sick or hurt which costs alot less than treating someone once they have developed a full blown disease. It's one place where both the patients' and the insurer's and hospitals' interests are all in line with each other.
RingTheory makes rings that can access the MBTA (mass transit) in Boston. The product is the "Sesame Ring" and they have partnered with the MBTA on this.
http://www.ringtheory.com/#home
The only way to "stand up for what's right" is to be part of the conversation, not to shy away from it.
If TK isn't part of that group, then who takes his place?
If you had your way and nobody you approve of politically would have representation.
The answers to our problems aren't blatant partisanship, but a robust exchange of ideas. If Trump invites anyone from SV, it'd be extremely foolish to "protest" by taking yourself out of the conversation.
Conversate with whom exactly? Trump? Bannon? When have these idiots ever given any indication that they're willing to listen to someone who contradicts them? Are there any examples of them actually having listened to someone, taken their advice, and done it all with an even temper? And how exactly is TK "protesting from within" the system? What concrete steps is he likely to take over the next four years that will impact the opinions of the petulant child Americans are forced to call their president?
It's a mistake to not think of this current presidency as unprecedented in it's potential for terror. The path of civilized conduct works with people who are willing to meet you halfway by behaving in a civil manner themselves. Trump just isn't.
Also, I'm more than a little tired of SV CEOs walking around with this transparent facade of integrity and paying lip service to doing the right thign. They care about one thing, and one thing only: protecting their company at all cost, country be damned. It's no use them saying "If we don't do it, someone else will" because that isn't enough of an exoneration of their own conduct. They aren't machines designed with the single purpose of working for a company. They are humans who are expected to have a moral core.
Actually, there's pretty abundant evidence that Trump capriciously formulates his policies based on whoever he just talked to. He's exactly like a "petulant child" that way.
For example, his policy on torture has swayed back and forth based almost entirely on conversations with Mattis.
I honestly do think directly talking to Trump and explaining the real harm his policies are doing to American companies is one of the most effective things that CEOs can do.
0. Create fake Facebook account where you live in a foreign place, have pedestrian interests, and so on.
1. Use it to log into Quora and other sites that accept FB
For bike trails, there is an effort to connect Maine to Florida called the East Coast Greenway: https://www.greenway.org/
Having used it myself, it's not continuous but certainly better than nothing.