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Fall in Love with your Work Day: The Art of Lunch, Silicon Valley Style. If there’s one thing we tech geeks are obsessed with— besides obsessively scanning the gadget-sphere, of course— it’s efficiency. From faster hardware to smarter software, techies are always looking to make everything in their lives run harder, better, faster, stronger. And not just because many of us are huge Daft Punk fans (There. I said it). When you work in an industry that moves faster than you can click a mouse, you have to be efficient to stay on top of your game, which is why us geeks are really good at figuring out ways to do more with less. And, whether it’s thirty minutes or an hour, your lunch break is the perfect time to take advantage of some of those simple tech tricks to help you eat, exercise and educate yourself easily and efficiently. Smart Food There’s plenty of ways to use technology to get good food fast— just ask anyone who’s ever hit the jackpot on UrbanSpoon. When you’re pressed for time and money, many flash-sale site (a la LivingSocialInstant,  GrouponNow, and a bevy of others) can help you scan discounts of-the-moment— no printer required. While your phone is out, there are also tons of restaurants that let you orderlunch directly from your dialer. If you don’t want to leave your desk, there are services like Seamless, GrubHub and my personal (and shamelessly self promotional) favorite, BetterWorks that will let you order online and deliver the food directly to you, often at a discount. And, if you’re more of a ‘brown bag’ kind of a gal, there’s always this lovely USBpoweredlunchbox and cooler that keep your food temperate with the power of your personal computer. Of course, if you want to let your full geek flag fly, you can also try to make good on the desktopmicrowave concept sketched out here — RFID fork not included. Better Living Through Exercise Nothing says efficiency quite like squeezing in a full-fledged workout during your lunch break. Now, there’s a whole range of gadgets to help you work smarter — and harder — when you’re working out at work. The Fitbit, JawboneUp and Nike+ Fuelband are all supercharged pedometers that track stats like steps, sleep, stairs and more. Beyond tracking, many of these new exercise gadgets provide supporting tools—some of them being wireless syncing back to your computer, food tracking, social challenges with friends and fellow fitness buffs and more. If you don’t want to invest in a new gadget, you can also download apps like MapMyRun to your mobile phone. It’ll help you find great running routes near you, track how far you’ve run and give you pacing stats to boot — or sneaker, as the case may be. If you’d rather stay close to your computer, there are a lot of great options out there to help you  burn calories right from the comfort of your cube. Fitness Magazine’s ExpressWorkouts app will give you easy routines right on your mobile device, and OfficeYoga will help you downward dog right at your desk. Netflix members can also take advantage of streaming fitness videos like 10 MinuteSolutionPilates, FatBurningAbAttack and TheSituationWorkout, for those days when you feel like adding a little GTL to your 9-5. Of course, you can always just hook up to this ellipticaldesk for the ultimate in office efficiency. Or, if that’s too extreme for your company culture, you can also try stashing a mini-stepper under your desk — perfect for secretly sneaking in a workout on those lunch hours when you just can’t leave. Pumping News Media Iron Besides working up an appetite, or working off a few calories, lunch is also a great time to work in some reading — particularly when it comes to catching up on your blogs, news and social networks. To get a quick fix of everything at once, check out Flipboard or Pulse.me. Both apps allow you to quickly flip through a curated cache of content that’s tailored to your topics — news you care about, blogs you read, friends you follow and more. And, it doesn’t hurt that they’re both visually stunning, which makes them a tasty lunchtime treat for your eyes too. If you’d rather browse on a big screen, you can also set up a similarly personalized feed for yourself using GoogleReader. Or, you can get social with WashingtonPostSocialReader or HuffingtonPostSocialReader, both of which let you browse based on what your friends are reading and easily share the articles you like with your social networks. You can also get a quick fix of the day’s top stories through sites like GoogleNews, Technorati and Alltop, which serve up heaping helpings of the news you need to know — or at least the news everyone else is going to be talking about today. ——————————————————————————— Mollie Vandor is a startup junkie who just can’t kick the habit. She’s currently getting her fix as Product Quality Lead at BetterWorks.  Her past lives include Product and Project Management at Ranker.com in 2008. Resultingly, Mollie is fluent in ‘Engineerese,’ and developed a passion for living in the liminal space between Product and Engineering. Mollie has also served on the Product team at Cooking.com, where she worked on mobile and desktop sites for clients like Epicurious, Food Network and Calphalon.  She now writes about technology, culture and the web for sites like Mashable, Lalawag and Women 2.0. And, she serves as the LA Lead for Women 2.0, where she enjoys the opportunity to showcase and support LA’s growing community of female entrepreneurs. Stay tuned for more from Mollie— The Levo League is excited to have her contributions and can’t wait to hear your techie-lunch suggestions too!
Fall in Love with your Work Day: The Art of Lunch, Silicon Valley Style. If there’s one thing we tech geeks are obsessed with— besides obsessively scanning the gadget-sphere, of course— it’s efficiency. From faster hardware to smarter software, techies are always looking to make everything in their lives run harder, better, faster, stronger. And not just because many of us are huge Daft Punk fans (There. I said it). When you work in an industry that moves faster than you can click a mouse, you have to be efficient to stay on top of your game, which is why us geeks are really good at figuring out ways to do more with less. And, whether it’s thirty minutes or an hour, your lunch break is the perfect time to take advantage of some of those simple tech tricks to help you eat, exercise and educate yourself easily and efficiently. Smart Food There’s plenty of ways to use technology to get good food fast— just ask anyone who’s ever hit the jackpot on UrbanSpoon. When you’re pressed for time and money, many flash-sale site (a la LivingSocialInstant,  GrouponNow, and a bevy of others) can help you scan discounts of-the-moment— no printer required. While your phone is out, there are also tons of restaurants that let you orderlunch directly from your dialer. If you don’t want to leave your desk, there are services like Seamless, GrubHub and my personal (and shamelessly self promotional) favorite, BetterWorks that will let you order online and deliver the food directly to you, often at a discount. And, if you’re more of a ‘brown bag’ kind of a gal, there’s always this lovely USBpoweredlunchbox and cooler that keep your food temperate with the power of your personal computer. Of course, if you want to let your full geek flag fly, you can also try to make good on the desktopmicrowave concept sketched out here — RFID fork not included. Better Living Through Exercise Nothing says efficiency quite like squeezing in a full-fledged workout during your lunch break. Now, there’s a whole range of gadgets to help you work smarter — and harder — when you’re working out at work. The Fitbit, JawboneUp and Nike+ Fuelband are all supercharged pedometers that track stats like steps, sleep, stairs and more. Beyond tracking, many of these new exercise gadgets provide supporting tools—some of them being wireless syncing back to your computer, food tracking, social challenges with friends and fellow fitness buffs and more. If you don’t want to invest in a new gadget, you can also download apps like MapMyRun to your mobile phone. It’ll help you find great running routes near you, track how far you’ve run and give you pacing stats to boot — or sneaker, as the case may be. If you’d rather stay close to your computer, there are a lot of great options out there to help you  burn calories right from the comfort of your cube. Fitness Magazine’s ExpressWorkouts app will give you easy routines right on your mobile device, and OfficeYoga will help you downward dog right at your desk. Netflix members can also take advantage of streaming fitness videos like 10 MinuteSolutionPilates, FatBurningAbAttack and TheSituationWorkout, for those days when you feel like adding a little GTL to your 9-5. Of course, you can always just hook up to this ellipticaldesk for the ultimate in office efficiency. Or, if that’s too extreme for your company culture, you can also try stashing a mini-stepper under your desk — perfect for secretly sneaking in a workout on those lunch hours when you just can’t leave. Pumping News Media Iron Besides working up an appetite, or working off a few calories, lunch is also a great time to work in some reading — particularly when it comes to catching up on your blogs, news and social networks. To get a quick fix of everything at once, check out Flipboard or Pulse.me. Both apps allow you to quickly flip through a curated cache of content that’s tailored to your topics — news you care about, blogs you read, friends you follow and more. And, it doesn’t hurt that they’re both visually stunning, which makes them a tasty lunchtime treat for your eyes too. If you’d rather browse on a big screen, you can also set up a similarly personalized feed for yourself using GoogleReader. Or, you can get social with WashingtonPostSocialReader or HuffingtonPostSocialReader, both of which let you browse based on what your friends are reading and easily share the articles you like with your social networks. You can also get a quick fix of the day’s top stories through sites like GoogleNews, Technorati and Alltop, which serve up heaping helpings of the news you need to know — or at least the news everyone else is going to be talking about today. ——————————————————————————— Mollie Vandor is a startup junkie who just can’t kick the habit. She’s currently getting her fix as Product Quality Lead at BetterWorks.  Her past lives include Product and Project Management at Ranker.com in 2008. Resultingly, Mollie is fluent in ‘Engineerese,’ and developed a passion for living in the liminal space between Product and Engineering. Mollie has also served on the Product team at Cooking.com, where she worked on mobile and desktop sites for clients like Epicurious, Food Network and Calphalon.  She now writes about technology, culture and the web for sites like Mashable, Lalawag and Women 2.0. And, she serves as the LA Lead for Women 2.0, where she enjoys the opportunity to showcase and support LA’s growing community of female entrepreneurs. Stay tuned for more from Mollie— The Levo League is excited to have her contributions and can’t wait to hear your techie-lunch suggestions too!

Fall in Love with your Work Day: The Art of Lunch, Silicon Valley Style.

If there’s one thing we tech geeks are obsessed with— besides obsessively scanning the gadget-sphere, of course— it’s efficiency. From faster hardware to smarter software, techies are always looking to make everything in their lives run harder, better, faster, stronger. And not just because many of us are huge Daft Punk fans (There. I said it).

When you work in an industry that moves faster than you can click a mouse, you have to be efficient to stay on top of your game, which is why us geeks are really good at figuring out ways to do more with less. And, whether it’s thirty minutes or an hour, your lunch break is the perfect time to take advantage of some of those simple tech tricks to help you eat, exercise and educate yourself easily and efficiently.

Smart Food

There’s plenty of ways to use technology to get good food fast— just ask anyone who’s ever hit the jackpot on UrbanSpoon. When you’re pressed for time and money, many flash-sale site (a la LivingSocialInstant,  GrouponNow, and a bevy of others) can help you scan discounts of-the-moment— no printer required. While your phone is out, there are also tons of restaurants that let you orderlunch directly from your dialer.

If you don’t want to leave your desk, there are services like Seamless, GrubHub and my personal (and shamelessly self promotional) favorite, BetterWorks that will let you order online and deliver the food directly to you, often at a discount. And, if you’re more of a ‘brown bag’ kind of a gal, there’s always this lovely USBpoweredlunchbox and cooler that keep your food temperate with the power of your personal computer. Of course, if you want to let your full geek flag fly, you can also try to make good on the desktopmicrowave concept sketched out here — RFID fork not included.

Better Living Through Exercise

Nothing says efficiency quite like squeezing in a full-fledged workout during your lunch break. Now, there’s a whole range of gadgets to help you work smarter — and harder — when you’re working out at work. The Fitbit, JawboneUp and Nike+ Fuelband are all supercharged pedometers that track stats like steps, sleep, stairs and more. Beyond tracking, many of these new exercise gadgets provide supporting tools—some of them being wireless syncing back to your computer, food tracking, social challenges with friends and fellow fitness buffs and more. If you don’t want to invest in a new gadget, you can also download apps like MapMyRun to your mobile phone. It’ll help you find great running routes near you, track how far you’ve run and give you pacing stats to boot — or sneaker, as the case may be.

If you’d rather stay close to your computer, there are a lot of great options out there to help you  burn calories right from the comfort of your cube. Fitness Magazine’s ExpressWorkouts app will give you easy routines right on your mobile device, and OfficeYoga will help you downward dog right at your desk. Netflix members can also take advantage of streaming fitness videos like 10 MinuteSolutionPilates, FatBurningAbAttack and TheSituationWorkout, for those days when you feel like adding a little GTL to your 9-5.

Of course, you can always just hook up to this ellipticaldesk for the ultimate in office efficiency. Or, if that’s too extreme for your company culture, you can also try stashing a mini-stepper under your desk — perfect for secretly sneaking in a workout on those lunch hours when you just can’t leave.

Pumping News Media Iron

Besides working up an appetite, or working off a few calories, lunch is also a great time to work in some reading — particularly when it comes to catching up on your blogs, news and social networks. To get a quick fix of everything at once, check out Flipboard or Pulse.me. Both apps allow you to quickly flip through a curated cache of content that’s tailored to your topics — news you care about, blogs you read, friends you follow and more. And, it doesn’t hurt that they’re both visually stunning, which makes them a tasty lunchtime treat for your eyes too.

If you’d rather browse on a big screen, you can also set up a similarly personalized feed for yourself using GoogleReader. Or, you can get social with WashingtonPostSocialReader or HuffingtonPostSocialReader, both of which let you browse based on what your friends are reading and easily share the articles you like with your social networks. You can also get a quick fix of the day’s top stories through sites like GoogleNews, Technorati and Alltop, which serve up heaping helpings of the news you need to know — or at least the news everyone else is going to be talking about today.

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Mollie Vandor is a startup junkie who just can’t kick the habit. She’s currently getting her fix as Product Quality Lead at BetterWorks.  Her past lives include Product and Project Management at Ranker.com in 2008. Resultingly, Mollie is fluent in ‘Engineerese,’ and developed a passion for living in the liminal space between Product and Engineering. Mollie has also served on the Product team at Cooking.com, where she worked on mobile and desktop sites for clients like Epicurious, Food Network and Calphalon.  She now writes about technology, culture and the web for sites like Mashable, Lalawag and Women 2.0. And, she serves as the LA Lead for Women 2.0, where she enjoys the opportunity to showcase and support LA’s growing community of female entrepreneurs.

Stay tuned for more from Mollie— The Levo League is excited to have her contributions and can’t wait to hear your techie-lunch suggestions too!

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