On the move
The synchronization of the clock, cooperation, and ideas depend on a type of balance and life force. Time, for instance, is manufactured. Coercion is natural;...
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Slow is uncomfortable
Patience is scarce. It’s uncomfortable too be slow. The brain favors fast consumption and impulsive creation over a calm, tortoise-y pace. We are the products...
Starting the process, dancing with maintenance
The room of our mind decorates itself with doubt. Anxiety is a thinking problem, a challenge to contain the inner narrative that bears the footprints of...
Relaxed while working
The synchronicities tend to happen in our most relaxed moments, not when we’re stressing out about work or life. Bothersome thoughts place a block on...
The corrosive side of ambition
The corrosive side of ambition draws us into an unending hole of dissatisfaction. Competition, whether within the inner self or with other’s attrits the soul....
A vocation of old and new
Everyone harbors an undeniable vocation that starts when we’re kids. Playing in the NBA, winning a Grammy or an Oscar — most aspirations are pipe...
Doing it our own way
To do it our own way, for you, regardless of external interpretation and expectation. Individuality is all we have. Character is destiny. Sure, it’s in...
Reborn ideas
Life arises out of nonlife, developing as a consequence of the random workings of nature. Similarly, creativity arises out of noncreativity. Concepts are non-existent without...
The boss of time
Time is more important than money, yet time is money. So the clock (exported by the East India Company) emerged as a system for streamlining...
Ideas often come indirectly
We know our ideas indirectly. We all take our influences, deconstruct them, and build new concepts from those bricks. Growth results from experimentation. Then we improvise and...
Into the unknown
More than a bystander, we want to have skin in the game. The sidelines are for wimps. We crave a challenge, knowing that microchips can...
The unfinished symphony
The mind moves toward more interesting, attractive things, but especially to those things undone. What is it about the staying power of an unfinished symphony? ...