I like it because it's free, and I can even sync it with my iphone free - just have to pay $1.99 for the app
Nice clean interface, has a nice Google Chrome extensions, and for me it is intuitively how I order things - by date and importance. I just use "Project -> Task" to signify next actions within projects
I just finished a ton of great books, some that immediately come to mind:
The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris - Really made me think about life and the work I do
Tribes by Seth Godin - Love this book.
The Dip by Seth Godin - read it before, reread it again this year
Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina - really had to struggle to get past the beginning, was fantastic once I did
Find Your Great Work by Michael Bungary Stanier - I liked this one a lot, motivational
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta - no surprises here, I enjoyed the book, it reads like you would expect it to. Some new insights that aren't on the blog
Superfreakonomics by Stephen Levitt and Dubner
Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (I liked The Tipping Point the best out of those 3)
Free by...Chris Anderson (?) I forget. Very interesting.
Team Up by Pete Mockaitis - Great read about accountability groups, subset of a mastermind group IMO.
Collapse by Jared Diamond - Very interesting looks at patterns in civilizations. Some people I spoke to get bored after a few examples, it is a little repetitive but I enjoy the parallels
My old faves are of course Gettings Things Done, 7 Habits, Greatest Salesman in The World, and How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Both apps sync with the web, and offer offline modes. This makes it easy to use no matter where I am. I used to use my blackberry and outlook, but really wanted web integration.
I wrote an article regarding dopamine as well, I saw a couple recently on HN on the subjects of dopamine and self discipline, if you guys are interested. Much more in depth than the articles I've seen make it onto HN - but I didn't really think this was the appropriate place for them, that's why I never submitted them. Kind of off topic IMO, but for readers who like it here they are:
Very good article, Sid. An out of subject note, though: You say "High fat, high sugar foods were not a part of our natural environment". I keep reading statements like this and always make me wonder: was it really so difficult for our ancestors to find ripe bananas?
Bananas don't have very many calories for their volume - somewhere between 80 and 200 depending on who you source for nutrition data. Same for grapes, apples, etc. There are only a few fruits that are really concentrated without processing.
Similarly, most meats in the wild are fit and lean, and you don't get concentrated fats(butter, cheese, cooking oils, etc.) either, leaving nuts as the largest likely fat source.
That doesn't mean that our new food sources are invalid, but one has to be aware that they're recent inventions, evolutionarily speaking, and deserve "occasional" use vs. "staple" status. Which is unfortunate considering that almost everything manufactured involves a concentration - "vegetable oil" (mostly soy and corn) appears all over, processed grain products are commonplace, and most of the items not using the first two are dosed with some combination of dairy fat, salt, and sugar. Between just those few ingredients, you can find the stimulating factors of almost everything on the market.
Thanks chipsy, I think you answered the question perfectly =)
To expand, bananas may be relatively high sugar/energy compared to other natural foods (green vegetables), but they cannot compare with the super concentrated foods we have created such as Twinkies =)
It is very nice. It doesn't include everything perfectly, seems to have problems with wikipedia articles and the crawler seems to have been banned from vimeo, but it is still my preferred starting point.
I've actually used it as the starting point for my own yahoo pipe, stripping out some of the less than stellar submissions. One thing I've noticed though is that passing the HN feed through 3 intermediaries, nirmalpatel.com, yahoo and then google reader, does slow down the flow of news articles.
http://toodledo.com
I like it because it's free, and I can even sync it with my iphone free - just have to pay $1.99 for the app
Nice clean interface, has a nice Google Chrome extensions, and for me it is intuitively how I order things - by date and importance. I just use "Project -> Task" to signify next actions within projects