A few snaps from The Boulders ressort located in the desert one hour north of Phoenix. I went there for an event organized by LogLogic, the idea was to do a break in our day to day work, take this opportunity to meet customers, share with them our vision and future project and before all to listen their feedback. I've got now a better appreciation of what should be our priorities, now let's do it!

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Pretty nice view on the San Jose suburb, take off from San Jose going to Carefree in Arizona for our annual Customer Advisory Council. 

Today I did a 42 miles bike ride with 3,245 ft elevation gain in the Cupertino mountain, the view on the Valley from the Skyline bld is amazing and far better from a bike than from a car, climbing hills make you appreciate it :-)  Thanks to my friend Bob, you have been an awesome guide!

Snap from the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum

Tonight I went to the Duarte HQ to see Garr Reynolds presenting is new book: the Naked Presenter, he gave us a great story with his analogy with Japanese bath and presentation. I also had the opportunity to glance through Resonate the new Nancy Duarte's book about story telling and presentation. Both books sound great and I've just pre-order them.

Nancy presenting the Presentation Zen bento box.

By the way, I really would like to see this movie ;-)

Snap from a creativity juicy whiteboard 

[update: The video of Garr's presentation is available here]

 

Shoreline is a great place to find inspirations, this allow your mind to wander after a working day, allow distractions and you just have to look up to see the Googleplex and remember that good ideas can actually change the world.

Thank you Nick for the private concert! It was stunning.

Log Caliper 1.1 is now available, I added support of Bytes/s, KiloBytes/s, KiloBits/s, MegaBits/s and GigaBits/s and extended the database with common products average log size. I'm really having fun to code this App and now start to design the v 2.0 so any feedback welcome. You can download it on the itunes App Store. If you leave in the US and you want a promo code, just send me a direct message via Twitter and I will send you one.

This weekend I have just completed the P90X fitness program. During the last 13 weeks I did about 120 hours of workout including about 2,700 pull-ups and 2,500 push-ups. Beyond the gain of muscles and weight, I learned a lot and here is what I retained:

1. The weight you lift is NOT the most important - Performing the move in a proper form is critical to obtain results, I didn't let my ego get in the way and choose lighter weight to focus on nice and control moves.
2. Recovery is key to allow muscles to grow - Even if I felt guilty during the recovery weeks, my performance always increased when I started again with intense workouts. 
3. Good food really helps to sustain workouts - The adequate food contributes to stamina, strength and balance. On the other hand junk food can kill all the efforts and the will. P90X definitively changed my food habits: I eat to have enough energy and to quickly recover.
4. Whole wheat pasta are actually tasty - That's good luck, it's inexpensive and simple to prepare, I eat it a lot!
5. Not ALL protein powder are bad - I eat a lot of banana milk-shake (vegetal milk) mixed with Jay Robb whey proteins. They seem to be natural and are recommended by dieteticiens.  
6. Before P90X I was using only a fraction of my capacity - I did running and workouts for many years but I realize now that I wasn't pushing me to the edge and I was focusing just on some specific spots. 
7. The more energy I spend, the more I have - I needed less sleeping hours to feel fully loaded (6 or 7 hours instead of 8), the two extra hours were the opportunity to catch up time spend to do exercise.  
8. Fitness is really addictive - The more I exercise, the more I enjoy it, that's why it's so hard to respect a resting day during the week.