OK, thanks to the non­stop CES news onslaught, I was able to find some­thing that every dad needs– Miveu or as I like to call it, “The Dad Cam.”

If you have an iPhone, get your­self this chest strap doohickey and start shoot­ing some awe­some­ness. Bet­ter yet, use those Dad Do-it-yourself skills and stap it on your tod­dler (teenagers will prob­a­bly object) and let the fun begin!

God will­ing, I will be zip lin­ing in Costa Rica in about a month and this thing is just what I need for the home video.  The pos­si­bil­i­ties are end­less.  I won­der what the guys from How to be a Dad would come up with if they had this thing?!

YouTube video of it in action:

Oliver Segovia’s piece in HBR this morn­ing is very thought pro­vok­ing and, I think, very true for dad alive today.  It’s about feel­ing ful­filled and, thus, becom­ing hap­pier.  This used to be the basis and focus on a midlife cri­sis. It seems, how­ever, that the ter­ri­ble econ­omy and job prospects has cre­ated a twen­tysome­thing crisis.

It’s a crash between ide­al­ism and a desire to do what you love with the real­i­ties of being able to earn a liv­ing.  Life isn’t that sim­ple but that doesn’t mean you should sell your soul and live the rest of your life in quiet desperation/frustration.

When first read­ing the arti­cle, I thought it was sug­gest­ing just that (sell your soul). For­get about what you love and find some­thing that will get you hired and paid. The writ­ings of a type A, busi­ness school, I-have-no-life-but-work type who is scared to death or com­pletely obliv­i­ous to the rich­ness of life and our interconnectedness.

Thank­fully, the arti­cle is not argu­ing for that but, instead, for you to look beyond your ego­cen­tric views and see a world that has real and desperate needs.

“Hap­pi­ness comes from the inter­sec­tion of what you love, what you’re good at, and what the world needs. We’ve been told time and again to keep find­ing the first. Our schools helped devel­oped the sec­ond. It’s time we put more thought on the third.”

It’s a good read for any­one, whether you’re twen­tysome­thing and just start­ing out or in your mid­for­ties and deep in a cri­sis of self.

MG Siegler puts it very nicely:
 

Apple, for all the shit they get for being “closed” and “evil”, has actu­ally done far more to wres­tle con­trol back from the car­ri­ers and put it into the hands of con­sumers. Google set off to help in this goal, then stabbed us all in the back and went the com­plete other way, to the side of the car­ri­ers. And because they smiled the entire time they were doing it and fed us this “open” bull­shit, we thanked them for it. We’re still thank­ing them for it!

This is my first entry into a series I call “Things you don’t need but that you really want.”  Above is the brand new IWC Top Gun Mira­mar watch.  Named for the birth­place of mod­ern naval air war­fare where the best of the best go to get bet­ter, this anti-magnetic time­piece sports an advanced in-house fly­back chrono­graph move­ment within its high-tech, scratch-resistant zir­co­nium oxide case and stays strapped securely to your wrist dur­ing high-g maneu­vers with the aid of an olive drab tex­tile strap that evokes military-grade flight har­ness web­bing. Fur­ther rein­forc­ing the avi­a­tion theme is an altimeter-inspired open date win­dow.
 
Do you need such a high tech watch if you don’t spend your days doing acro­batic maneu­vers in the sky? No. Does it look bad ass? Yes, very much so. I can pic­ture myself loung­ing on the couch read­ing the news­pa­per and feel­ing very cool just wear­ing it. Almost like if I could be a fighter pilot any time I wanted to.
 
It’s a beau­ti­ful watch that should last a life­time. If you are one of the few among us that has the dis­cre­tionary income to buy this, I would highly rec­om­mend it. It will make a great heir­loom piece and look great on your arm while you’re still around. If you do buy it, please be sure to send me a pic­ture. I’d love to see it.
 

Enjoy the eye candy fel­las!
 

All the best