OK, Finished a couple of books and added a few now. No More Mondays – Dan Miller You, Staying Young – Dr Oz How Life Imitates Chess – Garrry Kasparov Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg Wherever You Go There You Are – Jon Kabat-Zinn Listening to: The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle [...]

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Bringing Down the House No More Mondays A New Earth And many more, but I’ll add them later. In a reading cycle, not much of a writing cycle at the moment.  Big stack of books and audiobooks on CD to go through.

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I have a tendency to stay up late, which then makes me sleep late. Over a long vacation, I can get my sleep wake schedule completely turned around. In a recent post I mentioned that on my last big vacation in Florida, I miraculously started waking up early, and was able to become a morning [...]

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Somehow, back in July on a trip to St. George Island, FL. I became a morning person. I don’t know if it was the time change, or just wanting to get out on the beach before it got too hot, but I started bouncing out of bed at sunrise. What really amazed me was that [...]

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We have a winnah! Whew! That was a lot of work. I will have more to say about this project later, but for now, I’ll just relax and enjoy the feeling of having accomplished a worthwhile goal slightly ahead of schedule. Now I’m on the hook to do the NaNoWriMo in November, where you write [...]

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Ok, I’ll be less available the month of June because I’m writing a 20,000 word screenplay in less than 30 days. This will of course require daily action, writing at least 667 words per day. I’m up to over 3400, so I’m almost a day ahead of schedule so far. Wish me luck.

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It’s amazing how something as simple as Daylight Savings Time can disrupt your daily habits, but that is exactly what happened with me and my daily running habit. I had been doing a run a day, for several months until the time change hit. At that point, with the extra daylight hours in the evenings, [...]

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I’ve read Herbert Benson’s book, The Breakout Principle (Scribner, 2003), and decided to search the web for a good article to summarize the concept for me. I found a great article about the principle by Clarence Bass at http://www.cbass.com/Breakout.htm: Harvard Medical School professor Herbert Benson, author of the landmark bestseller The Relaxation Response, has been [...]

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I have been running daily for months, and usually listen to something on my iPod to pass the time. I’ve recently found trance music to be an easy way to run about 10% faster than usual without any additional effort. Trance music is known for having a tempo between 130 and 160 bpm, which is [...]

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Extreme Planning by Mike Griffiths spells out the common sense idea that project planning for software development is not just a big plan up front that never changes, but more of an iterative process that evolves as the solution is developed. Software development projects are difficult to accurately schedule up front, because there are too [...]

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