I first met Bob on TheServerSide.com, which I ran for a few years.
We would debate all things Java, at a time where that was the place to pioneer in a lot of ways. For real.
When I met him in person I was confused. He looked too cool for school. He carried himself in a certain way. He wouldn’t want to talk to me…
But no. He was an ultimate geek too. I saw him in many situations where he fit in there too. It always felt different.
And then there was the Vegas trip. We put on TheServerSide Symposium, and in one of the most surreal days ever, I ended up on the bridge of the Enterprise, celebrating Bob getting married.
Never a dull moment with Bob. An intense creative mind, and one that loooooved to have some fun.
I just went through some old emails, many of which had a common pattern in the thread of:
Yeah those TSS days were awesome. Quite a special moment. Lots of smart people doing interesting stuff (and partying) but Bob was particularly creative, and always brought a unique take to any problem.
So sorry I missed the wedding. I think I was speaking or doing a client call at the time.
Thank you. This is not a post from a diet guru trying to sell anything. This is a personal story about how one change is leading to a mindset change. The details of labeling a diet are not the point. Thanks for seeing a bigger picture.
Absolutely. I encourage and am encouraged by anyone who is on a quest for personal development. That you additionally chose to share your story (including your struggles) in such detail was an act of generosity. I appreciate the many references, novel insights, and opportunities for my own self-reflection.
I just noticed you are the author, but I am a lurker and very much enjoyed some of your book recommendations and personal anecdotes. It has inspired me because I can tell your thought processes are similar to my own, so it resonates.
In the sea of HN pessimism, I thought you'd appreciate hearing from a stranger.
I am sorry that you think I tried not to mention "Paleo". I agree that many of the changes were Paleo, but I also don't know how much of the other things affected change. Over time I have also morphed the Paleo items of the diet. I don't think everyone needs to label things.
Then in the article you "There was a period of fierce reading about nutrition" followed by a long list of interesting labeled diets where your chosen course based on research was to basically select the paleo-ish part of each different diet, resulting in a basically paleo conclusion, without mentioning it by name.
Combine that with the section of the article beginning "I started first with what I was consuming:" and the following read like a laundry list from Robb Wolf himself...
You're on the right path. Its a really good path. But there's a sign you haven't mentioned hanging over the trail reading "welcome to the more or less paleo diet". You don't have to read that sign, you apparently figured it out the hard way via research. I think its cool you found the path all by yourself with intense study. Great minds think alike and all that, Very encouraging results. But folks looking for it the easy way on google or whatever are going to find it a lot easier, if you just use the commonly accepted placename / label.
The Warinner presentation is pure straw dog. There's some hilarious rebuttals to be googled for. The important point is they're PR style debates not scientific debates. A lot of credentialism, one paleontologist vs multiple actual MDs, lots of focus on minor meaningless details. Its a very strange PR event. I wouldn't read too much into either her presentation or the rebuttals. Thats nice that you say the captain of the titanic should have steered a course of 15 degrees to avoid the iceberg, but I think a more correct value is actually 16 degrees, now lets distract the helmsman from making any change at all by arguing, as the ship plows directly into the iceberg.
Given that the presentation provides little information, it does however point out that an open mind toward research is a great outlook. This is not a revealed religion. I fully expect that within my lifetime the ideal % meat consumption will change by 5% or so, but up or down, who knows? The overall message will remain the same, you should mostly eat what your ancestors ate, more or less, and the western diet is a pretty horrible epic fail at that with some really nasty negative health and financial consequences.
I love this product. People have been talking "social email" for a long time.... But this is the first implementation that gives more than it distracts.
Wrt the new code that groks auto emails, I would love to see:
- seeing that a Twitter follow email is from Twitter doesn't do much for me. If it parsec the email and told me recent tweets from the follower? That would be awesome
- opening up this kind of support (email parsing) as plugins that could be crowd sourced would be great.
Hey there, refresh your Gmail tab and checkout a twitter follower notification :)
We do have an API to let folks write Rapportive applications, or Raplets. Checkout raplets.com for some examples. Here's a funky video of the MailChimp one: http://blip.tv/file/3859911
