Time to face forward and...get moving!

I've been travelling a bit lately and fallen off the "blogging" horse.  So, I'm once again climbing aboard my trusty steed "Bloggy" and off we go again!

First up, I just posted the next episode of The MicroISV Show on Channel9 which features Mike Rohde talking about how starting to think about your user experience and design issues when you're first dreaming up a product is now quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception.

Secondly, I've just posted the most recent entry in my "7 Day Software" series which hilights software that I've installed that I kept installed after using it for at least 7 days.  This time it's FeedForAll from NotePage, Inc.

Finally, I highly recommend the following 3 books that have helped me start thinking again by delivering the proverbial "head wack" just when I needed it:

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and other novels.  A great how-to move from Resistance (wanting to create but not getting anything done) to Professional (where you actually do it!)
• Crazy Busy by Dr. Edward "Ned" M. Hallowell, MD, author of Delivered from Distraction.  Practially everyone, especially in the tech biz, these days suffers from Acquired ADD.  We recently interviewed Dr. Hallowell for The MicroISV show.
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris.  This book has really got me thinking about how I go about making sure I'm never the "middle aged fat guy in the red BMW".

p.s. Thanks to Bob Walsh for recommending these books to me!

Now... I've got to go off and post something new at my personal Independent Innovation blog!