'through the storm' Complexities, chaos, and mystery. available as a reserve auction on SuperRare

Forest Landscape, 1878 #shishkin #ivanshishkin wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishk…

By Maruyama Ōkyo, 1850 #maruyamaschool

breaking the cycle

The purpose of liberal education is to learn the foundational ideas in every major subject. Innovative ideas (let's say behavioral economics) usually come from mixing two existing ideas (psych and econ) into one. Humanities give an innovator more ingredients to cook with.

I’m always surprised how after 20 minutes of lousy and noisy meditation, it only takes one good breath to break through to mental clarity and equanimity. Just can’t give up on the first half.

At the point of loving kindness, anger turns to comedy

I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. -Attributed to Thomas Edison

Crisis

The vision pro timing could not be more perfect

Falling

I stand at the seashore, alone, and start to think. There are the rushing waves mountains of molecules each stupidly minding its own business trillions apart yet forming white surf in unison. Ages on ages before any eyes could see year after year thunderously pounding the shore

GM

Leonard Cohen on the poetic mind (1966) “I like the stuff I do to have a horizontal immediacy, rather than something that's going to be around for a long time. I'm not interested in an insurance plan for my work.”

Computerworld, 1968

thinking a lot lately about aging, mortality, and what truly matters in the end. everything seems to point back to love.

Flying South

Too many people are trying to save the world in public, not enough people are capable of being kind and helpful to a stranger in private.