I spent 16 months running a hybrid Buddhist cohort with carpenters, nurses, and people joining from Japan and Hawaii. If your setup doesn't work for your least tech-savvy participant, it doesn't work. Here's what actually made it work for us.
If you want to talk with some friendly people tonight - not about work - I'm hosting a discussion on chapter 5 from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's book Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Join us here
iPhones show you red numbers for all of the things you haven't dealt with that it thinks you should look at. In our culture red is often used to warn of danger, and whenever I see those red badge numbers I feel wary. Because of that, I turned
My latest attempt at storytelling - presenting Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's influence on American Buddhism using a top-down camera, printed photos, and accepting that anything I said would be inadequate.
In my current two phone experiment, my secondary phone number is attached to my flip phone and I have a smartphone with my main phone number for everything else: Spotify, Maps, Internet, banking, etc. I keep intending to leave the smartphone and AirPods in my car when I go into
I love Yasiin Bey's album The Ecstatic. I'm considering switching from Spotify to YouTube music, so I signed into YouTube music and looked around for some music I like. It looks like people take albums that don't exist on YouTube and post them there
author's note... I prefer the term I made up: "simple-phone" over the common: "dumb phone." So that's what I'll be using. I started wrestling my attention back from smartphones in 2022, and I'm tracking how that goes. I
Open source photo management is better than Apple Photos
“People see me and be like: ‘What’s the event?’ Today. Life is the event.” - Yassin Bey from The Guardian I rarely dress well, but have always admired Yasiin's style.
In Winter 2024, I went on a sitting meditation retreat. It was a week of stillness, routine, and letting go of habitual thoughts. When I was traveling home from the retreat I had a strong sense of wanting to shift my life/work/career from mostly coding by myself toward
Today is my birthday, and I finally forgot how old I am. Forgetting my age is not a warning sign - it's a relief. For most of my life I have kept too close a watch on that number, and measured my accomplishments against it, often disappointed in
I started playing electric guitar when I was 12. But, I haven't played in about 20 years. I grew to have an adversarial relationship with the instrument. I wasn't getting better, I kept writing the same song in different ways, and didn't see a