I’ve recently reconnected with creating mandalas. Over the past couple of days, I made this mandala and spent time contemplating its meaning. Through intuition, I received an insightful message from my inner wisdom.
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And nothing even blew up!
America’s digital goddess has been around since the beginning of the personal computer revolution. Her she is in 1990s explaining what a computer is. I know, hard to imagine a time without a computer!
By the way America’s digital goddess aka Kim Kamando is still at. She host a radio show about tech. She has some classic lines in this video:
“What happens when you press the wrong button? Does it blow up?”
“That’s how simple DOS is. It’s like house cleaning”
“This is called pointing. There’s also click”
“We’re going to use the clock program now”
“It’s not tough to use a computer. And nothing even blew up!”
Gotta love it.
h/t @gizmodo
A snippet of Episode 126: The Body-Mind Connection
So this week we discussed how you can use your body to explore your emotions and your thoughts. It’s pretty crazy, the connection between the mind and the body and how each influences the other.
You can listen to the full episode here.
Some Easy Life Math For You – Lifehack #001
How good are you with math? Here’s some easy life math for you.
Getting back into the game
In anticipation of the video-making I’ll be doing in the near future with my learning design work, I thought I’d best brush off my video editing skills. I don’t make as many videos these days, just the occasional one or two. But now I’m anticipating a lot of video work coming up so best be getting back into the spirit of it.
The title also refers to the fact that Sarah and I bringing the Havana Cafe Sessions Podcast out of hiatus. So yeah, getting back into that game too.
Good Strong Coffee
Far-out guys and groovy gals drop doses of good strong coffee in this psychedelic 1968 ad for the hot black stuff.
Watch Alexandr Kisko kick Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ finger guitar style
One of favourite Michael Jackson tracks beautifully rendered finger guitar style. This guy, Misko has also done an awesome job with some other popular tracks too like Linkin Park’s In the End and Zombie by the Cranberries
The art of fighting without fighting
As the great General Sun Tzu wrote: For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
And here’s Bruce Lee’s take on it in the movie “Enter the Dragon”
All about the burgers
Some inspiration for my burger documentary.
I’ve been wondering this for years
Finally science has come through, well kind of. Watch as AsapScience explains.
Have you ever wondered why Americans and Brits spell English differently?
When people ask me how many languages I speak, I tell them two – English and American. I know, bad joke. Anyway, watch this video as Arika Okrent explains why Brits and Yanks spell words differently.
Listen carefully
Skwerl is an amazing short by London filmmaking duo Brian and Karl. Filmed in 2011, Skwerl was Brian and Karl’s first film. It features a couple having what sounds at first like a normal conversation in English…
But it isn’t. It’s a brief experience of what English sounds like to non-English speakers and the dissonance it creates as you try to pick out words is a little unsettling.
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Listening to music together is key to good relationships
Music moves souls closer together. I know I share playlists with you. I would love to get to know you better through your playlists. Send me link to one of your Spotify playlists or Youtube playlist or just type the titles in the comment section.
To vote is to exist – Milton Glaser
When it comes to politics, I’m usually not very vocal about it online. I like politics. I was an instrument of politics as an army officer. I just tend not to talk too much about it on the Internet. But in this Bloomberg video, Milton Glaser makes two very good points about voting, so I felt compelled to share it with you.
Never quit, right?
At least that’s how I was raised. My mom didn’t care if I tried and failed, but she we go mad if I gave up and quit. There were lots of things I did when I was younger that I absolutely hated and probably would have been better off to quit and use my time doing something else instead of wasting my time doing something that I hated or just wasn’t for me. But I soldiered on because mom said, “Never quit!”
The army picked up where my mom left off. The army trained me to never quit. Do or die, but never quit!. I even carried this picture around with me to remind me to never quit.
While that is a great attitude, it has consequences.
Not knowing when to quit is sometimes worse than quitting. The trouble is we don’t have a clear set of criteria to help us make the decision to quit or not.
Here’s a simple model you can use:
If it’s important to you, do it. If you don’t know how to do it, get help. There’s plenty of it out there.
If it’s not important to you, stop doing it. Why waste another precious moment doing something that’s not important to you.
The real wisdom, of course, resides in knowing what is important to you and what is not. For that, you’ll need to rely on your values. If you’re not clear on what your values are then start there first. Try Bill George’s True North Questionnaire to get you started or scan this list of values to see which resonate with you.
Resources:
For alternative take on values and the one I’ve used the most in the past is Martin Seligman‘s Authentic Happiness. He talks about playing to your signature strengths which are derived from what the Greek’s called Virtues.
I remembered an important childhood lesson
I was out walking along a path I know well. I closed my eyes for no apparent reason, but I’m glad I did because I remembered this lesson: we walk by faith, not by sight.