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Flavors.me

jason — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:41:58 +0000

I had signed up for this a while back, because I liked the idea of a “lifestream” as they say. It’s basically an aggregation of your online social content. Much like Posterous, Flavors.me has this aggregation as well. One thing I like though Flavors.me is that it incorporates Foursquare. Those of you that don’t have an iPhone or haven’t heard of this app, it’s what I like to call, a real-life video game. It’s a geo-location type of app where you check-in to a spot that you are currently located. Each check-in gives you a point value and there are bonuses for various type of check-ins as well. GoWalla is another one of these types of apps with a bit of a different spin. In GoWalla, you check-in to places, but instead of points, you pick up and drop off items.

At first, these sort of apps are a bit disturbing since you can broadcast your check-ins to Twitter and Facebook and the world can see exactly where you are at that given moment. But then again, you don’t have to tell anyone either where you are and can play in “single player” mode. It’s fun though to see other people checking in to places that you goto, discovering new places that you haven’t been to, and even chatting with those that have been to the same places as you and making new connections.

I suppose that was my intent in the first place of having a lifestream. To make new connections and meet some really cool people. I’m not sure if these applications will stand the test of time on the web, but while they are here, why not take advantage of the outreach to the many types of people that you can possibly connect with.

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Polyphasic Sleep Overview

jason — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:05:46 +0000

Courtesy of Dustin Curtis

Premise
Ever feel as though you don’t feel refreshed after sleeping? Well that’s because time is controlled by man. Some people can’t wait until the weekend because they are “going to catch up on sleep”. Now I have no idea if that’s true or not, I do know that I’ve had those times where I sleep for a good 12-15 hours at a clip and feel energized, but how often does that happen, and then it’s eaten a good chunk out of your day and the things that you wanted to do.

Overview
I’ve always been fascinated by sleep and what happens to us while we are sleeping, but that’s for a later day. I came across this post one day and thought that I’d like to try this – Polyphasic Sleep – out for a little while and see what happens. Polyphasic Sleep is the idea of distributed sleep over a 24 hour period, usually with naps. Most people sleep in one clip over several hours (generally at night for at least 6-8 hours). Polyphasic Sleep has several different methods with the extreme called Uberman, which is six 20 minute naps over the course of 24 hours. I’m going to scale that back a bit to the Everyman (shown above), which is two 20 minute naps and 4.5 hours of core sleep.

Theory
Basically the idea here is that REM sleep, which is the phase of sleep where dreams occur, is the most beneficial to us. Now, I’m not sure that’s the case, but at least for this experiment, we’ll take it as fact. Everyone that’s been overworked and hasn’t had sleep in a long time, such as 24 hours or more, has experienced waking dreams. This is when you find yourself having a dream when you are awake, duh . This is your body’s self-defense mechanism to try and recover itself, despite you. So it stands to make sense that REM sleep is the phase of sleep that is most crucial.

Objective
As many of you know I’m big into productivity, but at the same time like my sleep as well. Lately I’ve been finding myself setting my alarm at weird hours, such as 2:30am, 4am, etc just so I can get up and get some work done. After doing it about 15-20 times, I would say that on average, I’ve been successful with it about half the time. Why? Well because I was exhausted and wound up hitting the snooze button until it was the normal time to get up, 6:30am. So because of my workload, I’d like to try and see how well this works out and if I can get extra hours back in my day (one of the things I’m aiming for this year), that would be golden.

Results
I will be posting my results on here and via Twitter as well. I figure by showing my results not only will it be documented, others curious to this form of sleeping can see the results of such an experiment.

Webdesign Goes to Hell: Freelancers Nightmare

jason — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:45:32 +0000

This is so true and I know it’s being put all over the web/twitter right now, but I can’t help but to spread the wealth to those that may not have seen this.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

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Daylight Savings Time

jason — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:29:12 +0000

I figured that this may be a decent topic to try to do my first video blog. I know that it’s a little bit dark, I apologize for that, but hopefully you’ll have some more comments/suggestions that I can use to make these better in the future. Thanks and I hope you enjoy!

GTD and the NY Commute

jason — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:48 +0000

Ah – lovely NY/Long Island rainy morning commute.

I personally hate it. But it does serve a good time to listen to some tunes and plan out the day. GTD happens anywhere and when practiced, everywhere.

I try to think about the next tasks that will take my morning so I can get right to it when I get in. I also use this opportunity to listen back on my Evernote voice recordings and even brainstorm ideas on projects.

Bottomline here is we all are busy and get pulled in a hundred different ways all day, cease those times during the day when it’s just you with little or no distractions to get things done.

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Zero Inbox

jason — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:44 +0000

Zero Inbox — one of the great accomplishments of any productive day. I’m a big fan of the Zero Inbox methodology. The theory in a nutshell is when you process your email, read the email and think of “what do I need to do with this email?” If it’s something that can be answered right away (less than 2 minutes), then reply directly and then archive the email. If it’s something that I need to look something up, talk to someone else about it, or would just take too long to reply back, then I mark it with a date to process later and archive it. If it’s something like a response to a question that I had for someone, an advertisement, or just something that I don’t need to deal with, then I just mark it with a keyword and archive it.

The idea here is to clean out your inbox, and then when you come to your review of your tasks for the day, you will be able to see what emails need addressing at that time. Before I adopted this method, I found that there would be a few emails that would slip through the cracks. Someone would inevitably call me asking about something that was referred to in an email 2 weeks ago. Then I’d be stuck, because I knew I read it, just forgot about it because something else came up. With this method, each and every email gets dealt with in its own way.

I will go into this with more detail later, but if anyone has any questions on this, feel free to ask. It’s something that has totally changed the way I handle my email and just makes things SO much easier.

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A ghost of MJ ??

jason — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:05:08 +0000

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Google Wave

jason — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:19:54 +0000

Ok – so I’ve got my invite. I signed up. Watched the introductory videos. Started a new wave. But who to share it with?? I don’t think I have any invites to anyone else that I know. If I do, I don’t know how to send them out . Anyone out there????

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Staying positive when bad things happen

jason — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:11:55 +0000

Ever feel as though things just aren’t going your way, or you are having a string of bad luck, or that you are having a rough week? Anyone who knows me, knows that I’ve been at times a pretty pessimistic type of person. But I’ve been trying to stay positive lately, just seems to be hard when things continue to go in a down direction for a period of time. This seems to be true in sports, relationships, even just in pure everyday tasks like getting your car fixed for one thing, then 2 days later, something else goes wrong. How does one stay positive?

I try to look at the positive side of things by looking forward to something, by thinking about some goal I’m trying to achieve, or simply by trying to relax with a nice cup of tea enjoying a TV show, or reading up on something that puts me in a better mood. I’d love to know how everyone else feels about this and how people stay positive.

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Mac Tip: PathFinder and replacing the Reveal in Finder

jason — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:53:12 +0000

I’m a big fan of PathFinder, the finder replacement for Mac OS X. One thing I always found a little frustrating was that pesky option “Reveal in Finder”. I always thought, I’m not using Finder, I want Reveal in PathFinder instead. Now I’m not sure if this option is new or something I overlooked. But knowing myself and how I dissect an Application and it’s preferences, I find it hard to believe that I over looked this great feature. But you can turn the “Reveal in Pathfinder” feature by going into Preferences -> Reveal.

Now let’s say in the dock, you right click on a folder, such as Downloads. It will Open that folder in PathFinder and not launch Finder to show you the content.

There you have it!!

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