Outposts In my Head

Category: mind

  • More on body consciousness….

    I’m still here. I’m still pondering, and here’s the latest in my journey to peace; inside and out: I’ve been in a meditation challenge this month, meditating every day. And doing some other thinking. I have realized that I have an adversarial relationship with my body, and probably always have had it. When I am…

  • Thoughts on Tron: Legacy (an open letter to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs)

    We were those 20-something computer whizzes of the 1980s who saw it all go to hell in a blaze of cheap memory and storage, bloated programs and resource sucking code. We sat on our cushions lamenting, or in boardrooms profiting, or in management guiding armies of cheap, offshore, uncreative sheep-like developers – or abandoned ship…

  • My Digital Cleanse: What I’m doing instead of Facebook/Twitter

    1/1/09: This morning I woke up, popped the email, and rearranged my home page to NOT show me FB or Twitter. While I was in the email, I unsubscribed from a whole slew of junk email stuff. Then I went and meditated, sitting quietly and looking out the windows as the rest of the house…