Coffee!

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If you haven't started drinking coffee, it's not too late! New York Times Well Blog lays out some benefits that recent studies have found. I'll also admit that this is just a healthy reaffirmation of my latest hobby. http://instagram.com/p/KDNMo_u4fI/

Other recent studies have linked moderate coffee drinking — the equivalent of three or four 5-ounce cups of coffee a day or a single venti-size Starbucks — with more specific advantages: a reduction in the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, basal cell carcinoma (the most common skin cancer), prostate cancer, oral cancer and breast cancer recurrence.

But a cup or three of coffee “has been popular for a long, long time,” Dr. Freund says, “and there’s probably good reasons for that.”

via NYT: Well Blog "This Is Your Brain on Coffee"

My Re-Ply Chair

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My Re-Ply chair has arrived and it's newest and youngest fan is my daughter Norah Renée! It's an awesome chair and quite the conversation starter too. Watch the Kickstarter video by it's creator Dan Goldstein. http://instagram.com/p/aMPwKuu4Sh/ http://instagram.com/p/aMO8Hfu4RB/

The Re-Ply Chair from The Re-Ply Chair on Vimeo.

Love it. - Herman Miller

LUV is in the Air

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What a concept from CEO Gary Kelly of Southwest Airlines.

His formula is so basic, yet so seldom applied: Take care of employees, employees will take care of customers, customers will take care of the company and its investors.

Now if every company followed this rule, I think we'd all be happier.

via The Denver Post: Southwest CEO Says All You Need Is LUV

Are you an 80s or 90s Kid

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Upon meeting an individual, I tend to think about which decade they identify themselves. It gives me a point of inflection and creates a common dialogue. Here's Peter Hyman drawing a picture on the evaporation on the generational divide.

The lines are blurred, the edge has been dulled and the traditional time lines have been jumbled. We all now feed from the same cultural trough. And while the Baby Boomers are busy preparing their sloops for that sunset sail into retirement (provided their 401ks haven’t taken on too much water), the graying of Gen X has been postponed indefinitely.

Do we need to grow up or is that just a take from someone who lived through a visible divide?

Via The Observer

Robert Scoble on Google Glass

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I've been telling people that this reminds me of the Apple II, which I unboxed with my dad back in 1977. It was expensive. It didn't do much. But I knew my life had changed in a big way and would just get better and better. ...This is the most interesting new product since the iPhone and I don't say that lightly.

via My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on price.

I can't wait to get my pair but swallowing the initial $1500 is really hard for me. I'm elated that I won the #ifihadglass contest via my tweet in haiku form but I'm going to need a sponsorship of some sorts!

https://twitter.com/eejay/status/304216899355557888

Shift in Computing

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Bob O'Donnell, IDC Program Vice President, on the IDC Quarterly report.

"At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market..."

It's a bad time to be a vendor of PCs or Windows 8 for that matter.

IDC PC Shipments Steepest Decline

Blinking to Become Number 1

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An awesome and concise, no bullshit, no frills FAQ, by Rob Issac as to the reasons for Google to fork a well done piece of web technology. Essentially another doctrine to Google's new "Be Evil" ways. I think it's been pretty awesome how the web has come together but unfortunately and coincidently, on the heels of Safari becoming the most dominant and widely used browser on mobile phone, we have Google's fork.

In the longer term, we aim to have sufficient control over the installed base of web browsers to dictate whatever conditions we consider most appropriate to our business goals at the time.

Blink FAQ