Healthcare has become remarkably good at treating disease. The next frontier is helping people build health – in the moments between doctor visits.
Because for all the advances in medicine, much of what shapes our health happens far from clinics and hospitals. It happens in our daily choices around food, movement, sleep, stress management and connection.
That's why I'm thrilled to announce Thrive Global's new collaboration with @bswhealth.
@PeteMcCanna and his team are thinking boldly about what healthcare can become. Pete understands that caring for people can't stop when the appointment ends. It has to meet them in the moments in between.
Together, we're bringing Thrive's behavior change science into the MyBSWHealth app, alongside Baylor Scott & White's trusted clinical expertise. The goal is simple: help people turn healthy intentions into habits that last — one Microstep at a time.
I loved reading @kgoochBHR's @BeckersHR article about our collaboration and the impact it can have.
Read the full story:
beckershospitalreview.com/he…
At @SidleyLaw's CEO dinner at @LeBernardinNY
with amazing women leaders.
Amazing to see @AnthropicAI committing 5% of its IPO to the public good. As I've said for a long time, AI needs a new story and the most important thing AI companies can do is articulate their investment in humans, not just machines.
This is the theme of my conversation with Anthropic president @DanielaAmodei for Alice Walton's Health and AI conference, which we'll be sharing later this week. Daniela and I explore recursive self-improvement for humans, the potential for AI hyper-personalization to transform health, and the value of human wisdom in a world where AI is dethroning intelligence. It’s time to stop placing all our bets on the machines!
Read more here: anthropic.com/news/public-be…
Connection is one of the foundational daily behaviors that shape our health. We know it's essential to a fulfilling life, but it’s not always clear how we can turn our awareness into action.
In @AdamMGrant's new book, Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World, he combines science and storytelling to explore how we can build stronger relationships and closer communities. And I love that he weaves in his own personal story as an introvert who learned to connect in a way that’s authentic to him.
In the midst of a loneliness crisis, when so much of life is mediated by screens, Vibe is a timely reminder that connecting with others is a skill we can build.
You can get your copy here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
I love technology. I’ve started two very tech-centric companies. But ultimately, technology is just a tool, one that can add to our lives or deplete and diminish them. Much like a hammer: a very useful tool, but not if you hit yourself in the head with it, which produces roughly the same cognitive effect as doomscrolling.
The good news is that more and more people are choosing to put the hammer down.
“Bloomscrolling” is a growing trend of choosing uplifting, inspiring content over the endless doomscroll. And it matters. @Harvard experts link heavy consumption of distressing news to anxiety, depression, headaches, poor sleep, low appetite and higher blood pressure.
People are acting on this beyond the feed, too. @Pinterest reports searches for “offline hobbies” are up 551% year over year, and searches for “no phone ideas” are climbing as well.
The grab for our attention is the new gold rush, and our attention is our most precious resource. That’s why I believe no one should have phones on the table during a meal. There are few things better than sharing a meal with a friend without being constantly tempted to check your phone.
So today, try one Microstep: before you close your feed, follow one account that leaves you feeling inspired, and unfollow one that leaves you feeling depleted.
Read more in @FastCompany here: fastcompany.com/91608576/doo…
What a remarkable day at #ThinkHealth, Alice Walton’s health and AI conference at the @HeartlandWHI in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Every time I’m in Bentonville, I’m more inspired by what Alice is building. First came the @CrystalBridges Museum of American Art. Then the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the @ALWMedSchool. And next up is the AWSOM Whole Health Campus. It’s another step toward bringing to life Alice’s vision of integrating health, art and nature.
It was the perfect setting to share my interview with @DanielaAmodei, president of @AnthropicAI. With everyone at the company reporting to her, Daniela is not only a key AI leader, but the most prominent woman leader at a time when the AI conversation is dominated by men. She’s at the forefront of frontier models, but she also studied literature, she played the flute, she’s a mother. She doesn’t just speak tech, she speaks about nature, community, friendship and self-reflection.
We spoke about the need to expand the public conversation to include not just recursive self-improvement for machines but recursive self-improvement for humans. Because the biggest risk for humanity is continuing to place all our bets on the machines. As Daniela put it, “The whole reason we’re developing this technology is to help humans flourish and thrive and live better lives.” We explored the potential for AI hyper-personalization to transform health and the value of wisdom in a world where AI is dethroning intelligence.
These themes carried through the rest of the day. I hosted a panel on AI, health and the future of brain resilience with Jen Oleksiw, Group Vice President of US Neuroscience at @EliLillyandCo; Tina Stankovic, professor and chair of head and neck surgery at @StanfordMed; and Daniel Nadler, Founder and CEO of @OpenEvidence. And I sat down with Nate Gross, who leads health at @OpenAI and has been called “a human encyclopedia of digital health.”
Too often, we get information about our health without guidance on what to do about it. Our new collaboration with @Labcorp is designed to close that gap.
The Thrive 5 Health Test, now available through Labcorp OnDemand, measures five key indicators of cardiometabolic health — ApoB, hs-CRP, HbA1c, blood pressure, and BMI. But the numbers are just the beginning. After receiving their results, people get Thrive Microsteps: small daily actions around food, movement, sleep, stress management, and connection that turn insights into sustainable behavior change.
As Amy Summy, EVP and CMO at Labcorp, puts it: “By combining Labcorp’s scientific expertise and nationwide network with @Thrive Global’s leadership in behavior change, we can help people move from knowing their numbers to understanding what they can do about them.”
Read more in Patrick McGuire’s piece in @FierceBiotech: fiercebiotech.com/medtech/la…
Loved dinner with @lindayaX and @ShelleyZalis celebrating @femalequotient's Women’s Health Summit at Locanda Verde. And loving our partnership with Linda and @eMedHealth!
On my panel at @Slalom's R4 conference with the CEOs of @Starbucks and @Nordstrom moderated by former @united Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, something remarkable happened: AI didn’t come up until the very end of our conversation. Instead, from the very first question, we talked about how people are at the center of business innovation.
Brian Niccol described what he found when he joined Starbucks: it had become a transaction, a ritual people performed on the way to somewhere else, when it was meant to be a third place fostering community and connection. His answer wasn’t to give up speed. It was to build the experience around humanity. As he said, “My point to everybody was: Look, we’ve got to invest in our people. We’ve got to give them the space so they have the time to be kind and caring, so that ultimately, we give people an experience, not just transaction.” In other words, put humans at the center, and the business results will follow.
Erik Nordstrom told a similar story from another side of retail. While “there’s always newness we have to invest on,” he said, “there is that balance of investing in your foundation, and our foundation is service and humanity.” As Nordstrom builds out its digital experience, the goal is to make it feel authentic and human too.
As I shared, it's important to realize that humans need to cultivate the things that machines will never be better at. Let's keep cultivating the qualities of empathy and curiosity that machines will never have.
And over lunch, I talked with CHROs from the US and Europe about the tension underneath all of this: how do you build empathy, strengthen resilience, and improve well-being at the very moment you’re asking people to do more? So many organizations have lost the plot on AI transformation, more focused on investing in AI than in their people’s health and well-being, the backbone of organizational resilience.
Resilience is built in small, daily moments, which is why my favorite Microstep of the day came from Brian: go to bed smiling, so you can think, "What a day. I get to do it again tomorrow." That’s the kind of resilience no technology can supply.
At the @Pfizer studio recording This is Living With Cancer x @Thrive Caregiving Roundtable with Pfizer's Tom Butina, @HealthTree Foundation CEO Jenny Ahlstrom and Amanda and Tim Brady who shared their caregiving experiences. And great spending time with Pfizer's commercial oncology president Tina Deignan!
Want a quick definition of insanity? Here’s one: some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they’re so confident that AI will cure cancer.
That’s according to @PalantirTech CTO Shyam Sankar (@ssankar). The idea, he says, is to signal that “I believe so much in AI that it's going to cure cancer. So I'm showing you my chips are all in.”
One thing is clear: there’s still no cure for the smoke and mirrors of AI health hype.
An estimated 80% of chronic diseases and premature deaths are not driven by our genes, but by how we live: what we eat, how much we move, how we sleep, how we manage stress and stay socially connected. It’s true AI can accelerate drug discovery and treatment, but one of the most powerful health uses for AI is to give us personalized nudges for our daily behaviors and habits – like smoking, which causes an estimated 80% of lung cancer deaths.
Maybe AI will cure cancer. But will it cure stupidity?
You can read more in @ThibaultSpirlet's piece in @BusinessInsider: businessinsider.com/ai-resea…
Too often, we get information about our health without guidance on what to do about it. To close that gap, we’ve partnered with @Labcorp to launch the Thrive 5 Health Test, a lab test that combines Labcorp’s trusted testing with Thrive’s behavior change approach, giving people meaningful insights into their health and actionable next steps to help improve it.
The test measures five key cardiometabolic health indicators: ApoB for cholesterol-related cardiovascular risk, hs-CRP for inflammation, HbA1c for blood sugar, blood pressure and body mass index.
The results are then paired with personalized @Thrive content and Microsteps across five key daily behaviors: food, movement, sleep, stress management and connection.
By combining testing with behavior change guidance, the Thrive 5 Health Test helps people build awareness and take meaningful action.
Learn more here: thriveglobal.com/powered-by-…
Today is World Mental Health Day. And we’ve made great progress in recent years raising awareness and opening up the conversation about mental health.
This year, I hope we take it one step further: mental health is brain health. A growing body of research shows how our brain health connects to everything from daily brain fog and anxiety to long-term cognitive decline.
So here’s a Microstep to try today: take a moment to check-in with your own mental health by naming the feeling you’re having right now in one word. Simply putting a feeling into words can help calm the brain’s stress response.
It might be “overwhelmed.” Or “tired.” Or “uncertain.”
Whatever it is, naming it is a small way to build the muscle of self-awareness, one of the most powerful tools we have for our mental and brain health.
So inspiring to see Bristol Myers Squibb (@bmsnews) CEO Chris Boerner, chief commercial officer Adam Lenkowsky and hundreds of BMS leaders and colleagues participate in the annual Coast 2 Coast 4 Cancer charity bike ride, a multi-day relay raising funds for cancer research.
In one of my first conversations with Chris, he told me what this program means to him: he lost a cousin to cancer, and it has shaped every career choice he’s made since. That purpose is personal for many at BMS, from those who organize rides and fundraise to those who ride and cheer one another on. Many are cancer survivors, caregivers, or have lost loved ones to the disease.
Since 2014, employees have raised over $20M for cancer research. The US ride goes from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic and takes about 20 days to complete. Employees train for five months with coaches provided by BMS. This year, BMS trained over 300 riders, many of whom hadn’t ridden a bike in years, to ride about 70 miles a day for three to four days straight. With 33 countries represented, they’ll cover over 9,000 kilometers on the road globally. They’re also on track for a record fundraising year, supporting more than 25 local cancer charities.
Coast 2 Coast 4 Cancer has become a symbol of what perseverance, teamwork and shared purpose can do, and of BMS’s commitment to patients living with cancer. As Chris says, “When you’re training to support the advancement of cancer research, you keep in mind that the people you’re riding for are pushing harder…every mile covered is a symbol of hope and resilience for those fighting cancer.”
At @BillRMcDermott's @ServiceNow CEO Summit with Bill and Julie McDermott and @FortuneMagazine editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell (@ajs)
"Is our use of AI and data moving a medicine closer to a patient?" Matteo di Tommaso, SVP and Head of Research & Development IT at Bristol Myers Squibb (@bmsnews), shares the question his teams ask about every AI project.
It's clarifying — and it keeps the focus where it belongs, on the patient. At BMS, the answers are adding up: AI informing molecule designs before they reach the lab, digital twins testing clinical trial designs, and a trial operations platform that within a year was supporting more than 6,000 people across every BMS study.
Read more in @RandyBeanNVP's piece in @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/randybean/2…
"I am so sorry. Losing a parent fractures so much: the family you knew, the holidays you thought would go on for years, the feeling that you always have someone to call."
Moving and powerful.
You can read @sherylsandberg's open letter here:
cnn.com/2026/10/08/us/sheryl…
