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Two people at The Wisdom Seat who do a lot of the quiet work are leaving around the same time. One is graduating in June 2026, and the other is starting a three-year retreat the last week of July 2026. Before then, a bunch of small things they do every
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I'm helping run a 16-month Buddhist cohort studying Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings. From the beginning we knew we'd have about 20 people joining from all over - different parts of the US, Hawaii, Japan. Some can attend in person at our shrine room, others
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Open source photo management is better than Apple Photos
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“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.
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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
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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