Motorcycles are the minimum necessary machinery to accelerate a human to lethal velocity. So, dress for the crash, not for the ride. I always wear…
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Kickstarter is really coming into its own as a channel for innovation. Here are a few impressive products.
I like to combine tasks when possible. Multitasking isn’t a real thing, but some tasks involve a lot of skimming. Two tasks that combine well…
Entrepreneurial advice requires access to a relevant network to execute it. There’s no such thing as an entrepreneur hermit. Entrepreneurship means business, which means trade,…
This is a summary of a series of recent articles and letters in the journal Nutrition.
In short: the current guidelines to eat a low-fat (and therefore high-carb) diet and take drugs to treat diabetes was never based on solid science. The weight of the science actually supports a low-carb diet. In fact, the controversy over low-carb can be characterized as evidence on one side and dogma on the other.
I wanna see if I can use my phone as my primary device. That means it has to work as a desktop when it’s plugged…
Eggs are little nutrition bombs. The combination of efficient, natural packaging and diverse, dense nutrition is hard to beat. Eggs also provide a wide array of choices balancing effort and result. A still-hot fried or poached egg is deliriously delicious and a good way to impress someone. A dozen hard eggs cook and store extremely efficiently and they’re okay eating.
It’s hard to make eggs taste bad, and technically you don’t even have to cook them if you’re in a hurry, but if you do want to cook them (duh) how should you do it? 1
- J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has the definitive guide(s) for cooking eggs ↩
Sous vide is a cooking technique where you hold food at a constant temperature in a water bath. In all cases the principle is to…
Howstr is a system that makes it really easy to find out how to do things. In simple terms, Howstr considers writing and reading overrated. They’re great for sharing stories, but not great for getting work done.
Howstr replaces a simple story about a project with a complex model of what an expert knows about the project. Knowledge, not words. (okay, it uses words, but they’re used better)
The expert explains everything to Howstr. Howstr explains it to everyone else.
We think in networks but we have to communicate in sentences. Sometimes we can sketch out a diagram or find a stock photo, which saves a bunch of words.
But even using multimedia doesn’t seem to save us time in the long run. Whatever we produce still only works for a certain audience and it still falls out of date. We keep pushing the rock up the hill just to have it roll back down. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s always the lingering feeling that someone else has probably already explained this if only we could find it.
What we’re dealing with is the cost of getting thoughts in and out of our heads. The conversion doesn’t come cheap. It’s like trying to live-tweet through Burning Man using Morse Code.
I think we can solve most of this problem if we can keep information related to itself while it’s outside of our head.