Category Archives: Strategy

12-MAY

Boost

Muscle Groups

For human beings, motion is life. Our bodies are made to move. By exercising modestly on a regular basis, we can change the rate of our aging on a biochemical level. Regular exercise also improves mood, boosts energy levels, and builds self-confidence.

Art & Science of Aging Well by Mark E. Williams, M.D.

06-MAY

Tree Trunk

Don’t strut too tall!

18-Rules to Live By

  1. Question every answer.
  2. Own all outcomes, good & bad.
  3. Be curious about what’s not right.
  4. Eschew comfort, but don’t give up seeking pleasure.
  5. Read books; only finish reading the good ones.
  6. Write the story of your life.
  7. Fix what you break; build what we need.
  8. Take care of yourself in order to take care of others.
  9. Surround yourself, on occasion, with pure silence.
  10. Calibrate the truth to tell.
  11. Tolerate imperfection.
  12. Look ahead, but act today.
  13. Start small and compound interest consistently.
  14. Quit bad moods; always remember the good times.
  15. Beat a day of distraction with one hour of intense effort.
  16. Stop what you’re doing and rest, then pace yourself.
  17. Explore your dreams at night.
  18. Direct your focus with a conditioning ritual:
    • Breathe
    • Gesture
    • Visualize

04-MAY

Franquette St

Repaving commences today!

Start your day at 4:00 AM. You’re up any way, why do you to need to stay in bed? Sit up and meditate. Breathe, and say the word “thought” over and over again trying to visualize what it looks like. If that makes you sleepy, go back to bed.

28-APR

Panorama

A man walks upright.

For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill, because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upward and cannot gain any momentum.

The rabbit is better off. His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work. They are more than equal to thrusting uphill the light mass in front of them. Rabbits can go fast uphill. In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels.

On the other hand, the man is five or six feet above the hillside and can see all round. To him the ground may be steep and rough but on the whole it is even, and he can pick his direction easily from the top of his moving, six-foot tower.

Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams

30-MAR

Daylight

Daylight Savings

Change the clock twice a year, or else some places will need to adjust their operating hours.

Crank an Hour

Going back to permanent Daylight Savings Time has been tried before, and failed after two years.

What is the issue about the light & night that we keep forgetting?

17-MAR

Airborne

  • Never sleep when you can float
  • Never float when you can sit
  • Never sit when you can stand
  • Never stand when you can walk
  • Never walk when you can run
  • Never run when you can fly

Wink instead of nodding. Nod instead of whispering. Whisper instead of speaking. Speak instead of writing. Write instead of brain exploding.

16-MAR

Complexity

Pyramid Building

This image was once used to illustrate the subject areas for our WordPress-Cupertino Meetup group.

So far, knowledge of such complexity continues to occupy the minds of today, even though intelligence has been made artificial.