You have self control, right? I mean, you do have a personal sense of self control that enables you to work –– productively and without interruption –– at any task you put your mind to, and for unlimited amounts of time, correct? Yeah…  I didn’t think so. But that’s okay… I don’t either. As was discussed in a previous post, attention is a finite resource and –– for the vast majority of us –– an increasingly scarce resource, especially as our homes, workspaces, and lives become filled with more and more technology.  It’s incredibly difficult to maintain focus and deep concentration on a task when every...

Brigitte Theriault works in the Bay Area as a professional chef AND as a personal chef, where she runs cooking workshops and meal planning services from her White Apron Chef kitchen, while also using her well-honed culinary skills to keep the designers, makers, and builders of San Francisco’s tech scene happy and well fed. By the way, I was just about the write the phrase “…fat, happy, and well fed,”  but that wouldn’t have been in keeping with the nature of this blog, nor in line with the title of this post: “Building Healthy Habits For Life.” Brigitte recently reached out to me, asking if she...

The last time I regularly wore a watch on my wrist was way back in the early 1980’s. Actually, one slight correction… The last time I regularly wore a watch on my wrist, prior to the past six months, had been way back in the early 1980’s. On the other hand (no pun intended), for about the past six months or so, I’ve been regularly sporting an old fashioned, mechanically operated, analog timepiece of some sort or the other on my wrist, and have been doing so for reasons of attention and concentration and –– oh, by the way –– so I’ll also know what the time is. Allow me to put all of this into context… If you...

With so much silliness coming out of Silicon Valley these days (and if you don’t believe me, just Google the words “Yo app”) it’s refreshing –– hell, it puts my faith back in humanity –– to hear of tech-centric companies that are actually trying to do some amount of good in this world. Don’t get me wrong: I love technology, and I am a 100% certifiable geek.  I mean, jeez’…  I actually learned how to program in BASIC, FORTRAN, and PASCAL waaaaaaay back in the late 1970’s on a Digital Corporation PDP-11, where I used punch cards to tickle and tease all 512 KiloBytes of that computer’s...

At some point during the next few weeks, I plan on heading out of the city for a day or two, holing myself up in some small lil’ podunk town, and spending a good amount of time deep diving into this past year’s accomplishments (and non-accomplishments), all as part of personal annual review. It’s standard practice in the business world to have year-end reviews of employees, strategies, practices, and financials –– and my plan is to do something analogous for myself, where I examine the areas of my business life that worked and didn’t work, my personal life that worked and didn’t work, my creative life that...

Damn… I LOVE lentils! Lentils are filling, flavorful, packed full of protein, relatively low on the glycemic index scale, and a fantastic source of fiber. They’re also incredibly inexpensive, easy to prepare, quick to cook, and the basis for hundreds of great tasting meals . And my absolute favorite lentil dish of them all? Red Lentil Chicken Stew.

If you’re of a certain age (by which I mean: if you have any high school or hazy dorm room memories of the Reagan presidency) then you probably wasted a good amount of time in front of a tv set, waiting for the latest music videos from Prince, Madonna, Boy George, or The Bangles to show up on screen.  Occasionally, government mandated Public Service Announcements would appear –– usually to deliver a health related message of some sort –– with the most famous PSA from that era featuring a somewhat dour man who, while frying up an egg in a skillet, would tell us all that the egg somehow represented a brain (“this is your...