Crafting a sane life in an accelerating world. What is important as our world becomes more speedy is to cultivate what is basically good in each other, celebrate each other, dive into crafts and artistry and mastery of human endeavors. We need to pay attention to the digital tools we use, and avoid what is harmful. As someone working in software and AI, a practicing Buddhist, a meditation instructor, an artist creating music...let's find each other and learn what works and what to leave behind.
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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.
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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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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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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