Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish and Circulating Water
via nytimes.com
This is awesome... Now, I wonder if Lora will let me make one in our garage... hmm....
don't ask, just eat.
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No Booze, Coffee or Sweets?
I've been behaving badly lately. While I've not been chugging 12-packs
and whiskey, shotgunning coffee and polishing it all off with a cake,
it sure feels that way. I've become a bit puffier than this young man
should be. Since December there's been a succession of feasts, great
meals and sweet snacks parading through our house, for many good
reasons.
Valentine's and my mother in law's birthday, tonight is our salon
(http://salon.fuzzymath.com/) and it's featuring Mari's Foiled
Cupcakes (http://www.foiledcupcakes.com/) which are totally delicious.
This weekend we're having not 1, but 2 parties for Sophia's 6th
birthday, it is getting insane. Those 6 year olds chug Vodka like
Russian hockey players in Lake Placid, 1980. And what they do with
cake.. it's unspeakable. So, enough is enough. This dude is saying "No more!" I'm not
super-Catholic, but Lent seemed a good time to throw down a challenge
to myself and avoid all of the above, letting my system and my
waistline calm down a bit. The end of winter and the beginning of
spring means we need to be ready for renewal to come, and this young
man is starting his today!
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Lifestyle design + city planning = secrets to a longer life
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives. They walk to the store and to their friends' homes and they live in houses set up with opportunities to move mindlessly. They do their own yard work, hand-knead their own bread dough, and, in the case of Okinawa, get up and down off the floor several dozen times a day.
A good reminder of good habits for us all to reinforce in this new year.
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Getting meta with it
I had quite a bit of feedback about the "Maker's Schedule, Manager's
Schedule" dilemma that Paul Graham wrote his essay about. The most
common response was "Yeah, I have that too!" If it was written by a
parent, it often was followed quickly by "What do I do about it?"
behavior and tracking the results on this blog. The more I work as an
entrepreneur, the more I realize the value of my time in business and
in life. My initial hypothesis is that I can't make like Paul Graham and sleep
in until 11 every morning, though I can envy him. One daughter is up
at 5-6 am, the other at 6:45 at the latest. Hypothesis 1:
8am to 1pm is for communication and easy tasks: meetings,
correspondence, and follow-ups
1pm to 5pm is for work
8pm, once the kids are in bed again, can be for work on fun projects
(Gary V. would be proud) We shall see... I have to run to a meeting!
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This dad is tired of his "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule"
There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals. You can block off several hours for a single task if you need to, but by default you change what you're doing every hour.
via paulgraham.com
The past few years have been crazy and hectic for me professionally in leading at Fuzzy Math and personally as our second daughter was born.
I find myself on a schedule like Graham describes, with long blocks of time unpunctuated by interruptions only coming late at night. It worked for Graham because he could sleep in. You can't do that with a finicky newborn and a daughter in kindergarten, meaning those late nights charge a brutal fee the next morning.
I have always been a do-aholic, but not a workaholic. What I mean by that is that I don't like grinding on one set of problems all day, every day, but I do enjoy keeping really busy. My dad is the same way. Like him, I've always had a main project and several side projects, hobbies or whatnots to keep me busy.
This past year, with family and FM, only was about those things, and I had precious little creative time. It showed in everything: my work, my attitude, my health.
Well, I'm done accepting the status quo for my life, since when I do the things I'm more passionate about, good things tend to happen, though they are less quantifiable than many other more tangible short term benefits. More on that in a bit.
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