Hobbes
Hobbes is an AI-powered wellness coach that helps busy people build healthy habits. Launching Fall 2025.

Notes On Building Hobbes

21
Mar

Focus

Preventative health is a vast space spanning diet, movement, sleep, mental health, and social connections; and there are many solutions
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07
Mar

Future Health OS

My daughter Akira is 6. I often wonder what healthcare will look like when she's an adult. Predicting
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28
Feb

How To Earn Trust

“How do I know that this app is working for me?” is a common question people ask when using health
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21
Feb

Early Lessons Learned

I have been working on Hobbes full-time for about 2 months now. I thought it may be a good time
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14
Feb

Old Habits Die Hard

I recently ran a survey across a broad swath of people across the US (using Mechanical Turk) to try to
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07
Feb

Vitamin or Pain Killer

Would you rather take a vitamin every day or pop a painkiller when the headache is unbearable? Most people choose
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31
Jan

Preventative Care: A Data Science Problem

At Amazon, when a new idea was presented, one of the questions we asked was, “What needs to be true
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24
Jan

Hobbes Design Principles

A question I’m frequently asked is: who are you building Hobbes for and what problem are you trying to
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17
Jan

Welcome to Hobbes Notes

Thank you for signing up to Hobbes. This is the first email in our weekly newsletter, where I'll
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