Our 2005 New Year's resolutions were broken several weeks ago, but now that we've found the The Hacker's Diet we just might resurrect number one, to lose weight.
John Walker, self-described "engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives" says, "This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat."
The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987. "Look," I said to myself, "you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk. You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design. You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail. You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin'
weight
?
Through all the years of struggling with my weight, the fad diets, the tedious and depressing history most fat people share, I had never, even once, approached controlling my weight the way I'd work on any other problem: a malfunctioning circuit, a buggy program, an ineffective department in my company.
With his freely-available web-published book, Walker purports to do just that. We're impressed.