OTHER POSTS
You Won’t Remember Being Stuck in Traffic
David Eagleman writes a good 60 Second Read for Big Think: Let’s say you’re on a very boring airplane ride over to Europe. During the event it might seem like it’s taking a long time. But in retrospect, once you’ve gotten off the plane, it’s like there was no time there at all. The reason is you […]
Alastair Humphreys – Why Not Start Today? (TED Talk)
Alastair Humphreys’ talk was called Why Not? – Motivation & 5 to 9 Thinking. He describes how thinking “Why not?” led him around the world and subsequently built a career doing the things he loves most: tackling expeditions in the world’s wild places and writing books about them.
LeBron’s Odds of Catching Jordan
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/lebrons-odds-of-catching-jordan/?_r=2 Not the most lucid post in the world but fun nonetheless. Nate Silver has done fantastic work with prediction models over the past few years. “One can forgive Jordan, who did not have anything left to prove. But to match him, James will need to win two or three more titles over the next […]
This Too Shall Pass
“Everything passes, everything.” ~ Anthony de Mello from Awareness Ah, impermanence. Everything passes. Reminds me of Abraham Lincoln and my Vipassana meditation teacher, S.N. Goenka. First, Goenka: One of the key ideas during my 10-day silent Vipassana meditation experience was the idea of Anicca—a Pali word that means “impermanence.” Life is change and we suffer when we […]