I would love to be making smart home products and services right now, but at the same time I’m glad I’m not invested there. A lot of small players are making moves in this space, and now a very big company with a serious sales channel and a monster distribution system with lots of customers has just stepped in. Remind you of TiVo? See Comcast.
Kill the long cardio before it kills you!
Did you know that you can get a much better cardiovascular benefit in 8 minutes than you could ever get on treadmill trudging along for 30-60 minutes? Don’t think so? I dare you to try this.
- Warm yourself up with some movements like 10 pushups, 10 situps, 10 squats 3 times.
- Set a timer in front of you for 8 minutes.
- For the first 20 seconds, do the most squats you can. Rest for 10 seconds. Repeat this for 8 cycles.
- For the next 8 cycles, do the most pushups you can in 20 seconds. Rest 10 seconds.
You’ll be completely out of gas, and likely want to know who the hell devised such a thing. It’s called Tabata. Once you’ve done that, ask yourself if you’ve every felt that blasted from a treadmill. Chances are no unless you do sprints on a treadmill. If you do that, don’t! Holy cow! That’s dangerous! Imagine the fall if you stepped off the belt.
A 40-hour work week for sanity?
Check out this article. A friend from work sent this to me.
I do work a lot. I try to work every hour of the day that I’m awake. I love the struggle. I’m working at Intuit, I’m working at home, I’m working where ever I am…work and play are the same to me. It’s not like I’m some softy who got lucky. I have had to work to like working. I used to be incredibly lazy and irresponsible doing only what I deemed necessary to prevent some huge failure. It wasn’t until I worked a lot at my work that I really started to enjoy it. That may sound odd, but that’s how it was for me.
I used to think I needed to find my calling and then I would love to work. Well, I have found that I love to work by doing it a lot and that work has become my calling. I love to solve problems. The experiments of problem solving are very exciting to me. It allows me to get ideas out of my head and find out how far off-base they are.
Also, I have realized that my time with my family at home was work also. The same kind of deductive reasoning and experiments are the same as when I am at home or when I am at work. How do I want my children to behave? How can I get them to want to behave that way? How should I set up my finances to reach my goals? Which bank is best for this? Where to take my wife to dinner? How should I commute to work today? Where shall we take a vacation? What kind of experience will we want for our children? It’s all action around relationships and outcomes. That’s what work is to me. I just try to make sure that what I am working at is going to get more of what I want: health, happy family, wealth, etc. That’s what productivity is to me.
Anyway, I completely 100% disagree and agree with the article. I think employees should make sure they are rested and advocate for time in their lives away from work to get rest; however, I also think that every employee should consider themselves their own “small business”. If you ran your own business, would you limit yourself to 40 hours a week just on principle? You just might go out of business doing that. It’s not about time, it’s about productivity. I completely 100% agree with that.
Google voice call from God.
I didn’t get a chance to talk to God, but Google voice says God called. I blocked out his number to respect his privacy. Still, here’s proof.
The number isn’t working though. I guess God can call me, but I can’t call him. Definitely will put the ringer on for next time!
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