Next series: home automation applied to healthcare

Well, it’s been just over 3 months since the last post. Our first major hiatus (actually, I guess I posted a 1-off last week).

The main reason the blog fell by the wayside is that I really want to talk about smart-home/home automation and possible applications in the reading room, radiology department, and hospital as a whole, but part of me also has wanted to try to create a business and somehow monetize it.

But for a variety of reasons, that hasn’t happened:

1. I’ve never started a business and have no idea how to do it.
2. I’ve seen friends and family get involved in businesses and startups and it sort of consumes them. Not by any fault of theirs, but businesses are invariably a race to market. I don’t know if I want to get in that game; life is good right now.
3. The value proposition is kinda murky. Like, what exactly would this business look like?

I suppose it’s still possible I’ll pursue that, but for now I just want to get back into writing (there’s also a chance I’ll start hosting a podcast for another site, but that’s a whole separate matter).

So I think we’ll start a new series exploring the home automation devices I’ve brought into my new home (some 42 devices) and the experience I’ve had there. We’ll talk about possible applications in the healthcare setting, possibly even trying them out and reviewing them. And hell, maybe I’ll use affiliate links to justify the capitulation of actual monetization.