Christopher Hess

About Life, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.

The Wine Bottle FIER Extinguisher

First question: Do you have a fire extinguisher in your home? Second question: Do you know where it is? Third question: Do you know how to use it? (or have you ever even thought about having to use it?) My friend Greg Mockett recently developed decrative fire extinguisers that can sit on your counter. Why you […]

Bye Bye Coin, Hello Plastc

So do you ever have one of those moments when a light bulb goes off over your head. You get so excited about an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about it?! This is what happened to me with Coin. Then the problems started. Delays, terrible PR… I kept thinking I got in early… […]

Ifttt on Android

I spent a few hours the other night playing with IFTTT on my Android phone. The reason was they recently released an Android App. What is IFTTT? Since I don’t know that I’ve ever talked about IFTTT on here, it stands for If this then that. For instance, you could use the Date/Time “trigger” to […]

TaskClone 2.0 – An even better Evernote tool

This morning I received an email about an upcoming update to TaskClone. You can see the whole list of features here on their blog post but there are a couple of things that will probably change for me once it comes down the pipe. No more Inbox filtering As it stands right now, all of my […]

Productivity House Cleaning

Isn’t it funny how over time different people and things interest you in a different way? For a long time I read Zen Habits each time a new post came out. Then I found that Leo and I were at different stages of life. He moved more into a minimalist phase and I was still […]

Life Lessons From Disney® Frozen (Part 2)

Part 1 can be found here.  [Spoiler Alert: if you haven’t seen the movie this post is filled with spoilers so proceed with caution.] Lessons from good vs. bad experiences In life we make lots of decisions. In my last post I focused on bad decisions from the movie Frozen that lead to hurt and pain and […]

Life Lessons From Disney® Frozen (Part 1)

Yesterday, the movie Frozen came out on DVD. We had been to the theater twice to watch it and I kid you not, my 5 year old woke up and said “Good morning Dad… (groggy eyed and stretching while a huge smile spreads across her face) Frozen comes out today and we need to go […]

TaskClone – get todo items out of evernote

I found a new app… Surprise right! Well for those of you who know me personally, it won’t be. In this case, it isn’t an app for a mobile device (well not really) but a webapp that integrates with Evernote. Now, as a disclaimer, I’ve not actually used this for realtime work yet (just testing) […]

Inbox Zero!

So today I got a cool surprise. I usually keep my email clean. Just a handful of items in there. Today though I finally responded to a few emails that were just sitting there, and then… See that? No Email… NONE. That doesn’t happen that often and so I thought I’d share some things that […]

The Busy Person’s Guide to Reducing Stress – Zen Habits

Stress is one of the biggest causes of health problems in many peoples’ lives: it can cause heart disease, depression, anxiety attacks, sleep problems, auto-immune diseases, weight problems and more. But we’re busy — how do we drop the stress levels down while still getting our jobs done, taking care of ourselves and our families? […]