Josh is an independent writer, speaker, and user experience designer in Cleveland, OH.A very nice article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about a startup company I’m proud to be affiliated with.
A simple rule that made me lose 5 pounds in a month
I vowed to start taking better care of my health last November. I’m not obese, fat, portly, flabby, or gross by any stretch of the imagination, but I wasn’t living a lifestyle that made me feel healthy.
I started a real exercise regimen in December, but prior to that I made a simple dietary rule for myself. This rule on its own was responsible for my losing 5lbs in a month. It’s not super impressive, but it was a health change that I made without altering my lifestyle or my busy schedule.
The rule: When you are thirsty drink water, and only drink something else when you aren’t thirsty.
It’s that simple. When you crave a soda, have one. But, don’t have one just because you are thirsty.
The Codemash Conference is coming up again this year in just a few weeks. It is always my favorite conference of the year, bringing together a diverse crowd of developers to learn practices from each others industries.
I have compiled a list of talks that I know you’ll enjoy. Some of these I’ve heard previously, and others are presented by people that are always interesting/entertaining.
Thank you for making 2009 an awesome and prosperous year for us.
I just wanted a vector rectangle with an 8.5x11 ratio. This UX workflow is horrible, when they made it so easy to do as a raster layer.
Did I miss something here, or is this really the best way to do it?
Feed Reader Overload
I’ve observed an interesting pattern in the way I keep up with RSS feeds.
When I have few items in my feed reader, say less than 10, I jump in and read them all. Interesting or not. This means I waste my time reading articles which aren’t interesting to me, because there’s just not a whole lot to read.
The logical next step is to subscribe to more feeds, and ones which are more targeted to my interests. What happens is that I fall behind and have to play catchup, which means I waste time reading posts which are out of date. This becomes frustrating, “screw it” and I stop reading feeds altogether.
Lately, I’ve been subscribing to even more blogs which completely overloads my Google Reader inbox. Mentally I realize that I will never be able to consume the information as fast as it comes in, so I just focus on current relevant posts and let the rest fall by the wayside.
I feel more in touch the past few weeks. More up to date, and interested in my topic again.
