Simplicity
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
GTD Review: OmniFocus
Overview I recently switched to OmniFocus as my GTD application for Mac OS X and iOS. Now, I realize this goes against my initial criteria for finding a new GTD system, which included a requirement that the system be cross-platform, but my computer usage — even at work — has shifted to almost entirely Mac OS…
ISS Flyover Video
This is a great video from the International Space Station (ISS) during a flyover of the United States a couple of weeks ago. It gives a wonderful perspective of their view and includes a nice sunrise at the very end. At about 17,000 miles per hour, they see a sunrise/sunset about every 90 minutes.
View or Change Your Google Ad Settings
No one really likes online advertisements. But they do help to pay for your Gmail hosting and the occasional brilliantly written article on the web. If you’re going to be served up ads by Google then you may as well make sure that they’re about topics you’re interested in. Here’s how you can find out…
Jos A Bank
I ordered a dozen or so shirts from Jos A Bank back in January or February as I was rotating out parts of my dress wardrobe. One of the shirts I received was torn and I decided to return it locally rather than ship it back, mostly for convenience purposes. I was able to get…
NASA High-Definition Earth-Viewing System
While responding to NASA and one of its astronauts today about a video they posted, another Twitter user sent me a link to this project. It not only gives a great view of what the Earth looks like as it passes beneath the ISS at 17,000 miles per hour, but you can track the ISS…
Google Font Library Project
Someone I follow on Twitter (CodeVixen) sent out a link to Font Library, an open source project intended to tag and organize Google Fonts. If you’re a little typography-challenged at times like I am, you can shop by tag and the site displays a sample of each font on the page so that you can see…
Avoid Over-Committing with This Simple Formula
One of the sites I watch regularly is lifehacker.com, which is where a number of the small anecdotal posts on this site come from. They recently posted a link to an article from Elizabeth Grace Saunders at the Harvard Business Review that explains a formula for balancing your time and ensuring you don’t over-commit: (External Expectations) + (Internal Expectations)…
The Complexity of Taxes
Taxes are never fun. In past years, especially since getting married, they’ve grown more and more complex. The fact that both of us own businesses only complicate things further. I use TurboTax to do our income taxes each year; it certainly makes the ordeal seem easier than what I remember of my father with papers…
40 Ways to Crash a Product
If your company is guilty of any of these, think about how to turn them around. Pre-Launch Phase 1. No market research on the product or the market has been done. 2. Most of the budget was used to create the product; little is left for launching, marketing, and selling it. 3. The product is…