Download brightened version for e-readers (low res 600px pages, I’ll maybe generate higher res sometime later). As far as I know, it’s ok to distribute it, as a dozen other websites already do. This is a PDF of Ram Dass’ book: Be Here Now. I started reading it and loved it, since it started very,…
in English
Luzhai / A Letter to Agnes DeMille
Video: A Poem Reading with Meryl Streep and Cello with Yo-Yo Ma There seems to be no one on the empty mountain and yet I think I hear a voice where sunlight entering a grove shines back to me from the green moss There is a vitality a life force a quickening that is translated…
Don’t Play it Safe
Don’t stand idle at the side of the road don’t hold off on happiness don’t love with half a heart don’t play it safe now or ever don’t play it safe don’t fill up with calm don’t take cover from the world in a quiet corner don’t let your eyelids come down like a weighty…
On privacy, safety, openness, and growth
I propose that privacy is key to having any kind of healthy value base in society. This was inspired by What Happens Next Will Amaze You and by The following companies just betrayed billions of people. Privacy is not only a question of individuals being smart enough to not share anything too personal online. That…
About helping
suomeksi: Auttamisesta If we wish to succeed in helping someone to reach a particular goal, we must first find out where he is now, and start from there. If we cannot do this, we merely delude ourselves into believing that we can help others. Before we can help someone, we must know more than he…
Reveal yourself so I can be something different
suomeksi: Paljasta luonteesi, jotta voin olla jotain erilaista Don’t impose on me what you know, I want to explore the unknown and be the source of my own discoveries. Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery. The world of your truth can be my limitation; your wisdom my negation. Don’t instruct me;…
faith, evaluated
the thing I was I no longer am the faith I had it became new I was proud of what was vain I look for quiet now any peace will do around 29 Dec. 2011
GTD app review: ThinkingRock, Tracks, Google Notebook, Toodledo, Checkvist
I have been through several apps for Getting Things Done (excellent Google Talks presentation video). ThinkingRock, Tracks, Google Notebook, Toodledo, Checkvist each had their times during the last five to six years. And, perhaps typical for a usability practitioner, I tend to have strong opinions about their user interfaces.
Everything is new
This is how I see it here is where I stand this is who I like to be the road lies ahead The future owes me nothing the past is way behind all there is, is now everything is new
Amazed
The last night in Metz. I’ve been inviting people to see me during the last week for several occasions, and despite me trying to organize things, everybody came tonight. The surprise was great – I would have been stressed about it had I known beforehand. The party ended just minutes ago, and I feel I…