Mercurial

I haven’t slept well in weeks, and it shows: I have been under some stress as of late.
So sadly, no dreams – or rather, fractured ones, fleeting images, flashes of ideas that are, later, difficult to understand.
I do have memories, though. I am driving by a restaurant, and think about sharing a dinner – [...]

Program Yourself

function get_smarter():
1. Am I smart enough yet? (default answer: of course not!)
2. If yes, go make a grillion dollars, or go fishing, or something. (Note: this statement is unreachable).
3. Otherwise:
1. Do various important [...]

Found at Daily Zen:
Do not be an embodier of fame;
do not be a storehouse of schemes;
do not be a proprietor of wisdom.
Embody to the fullest what has no end
and wander where there is no trail.
Hold on to all that you have received from Heaven
but do not think you have gotten anything.
Be empty, that is [...]

Kathy Sierra’s post on How to be an expert simply reinforces the old advice: Practice!

Yet the research says that if we were willing to put in more hours, and to use those hours to practice the things that aren’t so fun, we could become good. Great. Potentially brilliant. We need, as Restak refers to it, [...]

Zen mind
Forget all. Be a beginner.
Much of the personal turmoil that surrounds me can easily be traced to thousands of experiences in my life. Add to that an excellent memory, and the sensation of being inside a hurricane of emotions and behaviors becomes a very concrete entity.
Enter the monkeys with the beginner’s mind:
The beginner’s mind [...]

On perceiving a marvelous subject for the first time, it is usual to surrender our rationalization to the simple surprise and complete awe that that first encounter might engender, without pausing to actually judge or qualify in any way the experience. Later on, if asked, we will revert to “awesome”, or a simple “the best [...]