Abbott and Google Health Partnership On August 11, 2026, Abbott and Google announced a multi-year partnership that links Abbott’s over-the-counter Lingo continuous glucose monitor with Google Health’s consumer platform and AI coaching tools. The stated goal is straightforward: help people see how daily behaviors—food, movement, sleep, stress—affect their glucose in…

It’s not really about how heavy the vest is. It’s about where the weight lives. That’s why a lighter, well-distributed load often feels better (and works better) than a heavier, poorly balanced one. Quality of placement beats quantity of pounds every time. Disclosure: I am an investor in KILOGEAR. I…

Sports leagues have moved from passive observers of technology to active shapers of it. Among the most structured and high-profile efforts is NBA Launchpad, the league’s dedicated program for sourcing, evaluating, and piloting emerging technologies that advance both the game and the business of basketball. Now entering its sixth year,…

Why Upper-Arm Placement Is Changing Performance Monitoring Wrist-based wearables have dominated consumer and athlete tracking for nearly twenty years. They are convenient, socially accepted, and good enough for general lifestyle metrics. Yet for high-intensity training, strength work, HIIT, and any movement that involves significant arm motion, the wrist has always…

Predictive Scheduling, Agentic Tools, and Workflow Integration Sports leagues spent the better part of a decade testing startups through accelerators and venture arms. NBA Launchpad, NFL 32 Equity, MLS Innovation Lab, and similar programs sourced promising technologies, ran pilots, and occasionally took equity. That phase produced useful experiments. The next…

Baseball loves its mythology of loyalty, grit, and looking out for your teammates. It celebrates the journeyman who grinds through the minors for a cup of coffee in the big leagues. Yet for hundreds of men who actually lived that story between 1947 and 1979, the game and its players’…

The AI industry has a peculiar problem in the middle of 2026. Frontier labs and hyperscalers continue pouring tens of billions into models that grow more capable. Enterprises keep writing large checks for access to those models. Yet fewer than one in five large companies report meaningful return on their…

Revisiting KILOGEAR’s Efficiency Study in the Data-Driven Sports Tech Era Disclosure: I am an investor in KILOGEAR. Major sports leagues are pouring resources into performance analytics, recovery tools, and fan platforms through incubators like NBA Launchpad, NFL 32 Equity, and MLS Innovation Lab. At the same time, specialized brands are…

The 2026 Playbook for Performance, Fans, and Innovation Major sports leagues have quietly become some of the most sophisticated venture builders in tech. Through dedicated programs like the NBA Launchpad, NFL’s 32 Equity, MLS Innovation Lab, and accelerators tied to the English Premier League and others, they are no longer…

Strategies for new Coders in a Winner-Takes-Most Market Recently have been asked a few times for advice to new college graduates entering the job market. These are sharp, bright young people with newly minted Computer Science degrees from the best universities, and they are looking for work. This situation would…