Wtf is going on this winter? My plans totally keep getting messed up. Today I have a cold/flu, and this is what it currently looks like outside of the warehouse (all of that is from the last 2-3 hours): New Years Eve plans officially canceled. Who knows when FedEx will make it out to us [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Productive Napping
In my quest to become healthy, happy, and productive, I’ve become fascinated with sleep over the past few years. I always exercise regularly and for the most part I eat very healthy, but a good nights sleep eluded me for a long time. The problem started in high school where I routinely got less [...]
Hello Songbird, Goodbye iTunes
I love open source software. There’s something fascinating to me about a community of passionate developers being able to release highly customizable software that is equal to or better than the commercial alternatives. As I wrote in a post last year, our company uses almost all open source software, both because of the affordability and [...]
New Pure Adapt Inc Site (Finally)
I didn’t plan on posting again before Christmas, but I just finished and uploaded a new and improved Pure Adapt site so I figured it was worthy of something quick before I head off to dinner. The old one-page website needed some updating/expanding, so over the past few weeks I’ve been spending a few hours [...]
My freecycle Experience
During my tour of our warehouse I mentioned that we made the switch recently to anti-static biodegradable packing peanuts. Part of the reason was to protect our products better. Part of the reason was to create a uniform packing process (previously we had just been re-using all sorts of packing material from our vendors). And [...]
This Winter Sucks
It’s a winter wonderland outside right now as I’m writing this from my apartment. If I had a working digital camera, I’d snap a photo. In a way, I like snow days. They force you to relax and stay in. I could use a day to just throw on some sweats and a t-shirt and [...]
If I Couldn’t Run a Business…
Let’s just say hypothetically that for some reason I was not legally allowed to run a business for an indefinite amount of time starting tomorrow. What would I do? If you run a business, what would you do? I’m not sure why, but I think about this question quite often. I don’t really foresee myself [...]
What do you DO?
Ah, my favorite question. Nev wrote a great post about it the other day. Saying “I’m a lawyer” or “I’m a teacher” is a whole lot easier than saying “I run a web development company with three other twenty-somethings and we own a lot of websites with the majority of our revenue coming from our [...]
My Email Bliss
Back in September I wrote a post entitled Making Email Efficient about how much I detest the distraction of email and what I’ve done to minimize that distraction without hurting our business. The quote I posted from Tim Ferris pretty much sums up how I feel: E-mail (and all of its Crackberry/digital leash/Twitter cousins) is [...]
Prioritizing Work – Part Deux
Oke from Life is What You Make of It (one of my favorite blog designs, by the way) left a really interesting comment on my last post about prioritizing work: I got a question for you. I am having a problem with this myself and do a shitty job on getting back on track. How [...]
