If there’s one thing I have to say about electronic organization, it’s this: close open loops FAST! I’ve surfed the net many a time and accumulated 8 open windows, and over 30 tabs in less than an hour. That’s a lot to sort through. Just develop the habit of executing lightning-fast decisions to quickly archive, capture, delete, discard, dismiss, are do things that catch your interest. In fact, the general rule of thumb should be “nothing should catch your interest for too long!” Okay, I speak a lot about soft-copy [...]
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The historical 2004-2008 category that emphasizes (quite naturally) things and events that are poignant and inspiring and that lead to some kind of (usually) expansion.
POP Suite Part 4: Electronic Organization and "Brain Trust" Part 1
Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about electronic organization. We’re jumping straight to the nitty gritty here. In today’s age, “paper-based organization” is an incredibly small percentage of the organization management we conduct; mostly all of it is electronic. I think the best first step in structuring and organizing your electronic management first starts with “contexts” of electronic. By “context” in e-management we do not mean “store”, “house”, “office”, etc, but rather applications! Just capture all your contexts for these types of information [...]
Wise Words on Fame from Some Masters
Clooney had some wisdom on fame. Basically you can still make it at an older age, and should, to carry the success, apparently. Reassuring for young burgeoning actors. And Crowe had some wise wisdom (that’s totally true, I agree) about Hollywood. People get paid out of there but it’s not necessarily The Hub for all film. It’s certainly undeniably a major one (and has been The Hub) but the world’s much smaller and film productions can certainly traverse many regions. Filming takes place anywhere in the world (or out of [...]
Productivity & Organizational Progress Suite 1: Intro Part 2
[2)Some solutions people have have just so much absence of logic and lack of practicality imbedded in them it's hilarious.] Cont… I’m seriously thinking of submitting “Stupidest Productivity Ideas” to some kind of segment for the Jay Leno Show. I hear people rave and talk about how these “productivity systems” work so magically well, when they’re really wrought with stupidity and inefficiency. One of my favorites of this category is Google Notebooks. Laughing at other methods. Here’s a “genius” method I’ve seen people raving over. What is with it with [...]
Productivity & Organizational Progress Suite 1: Intro Part 1
Thus begin the first installment of the Productivity & Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Stay tuned for the next 5 (or more) installments detailing everything from organizational mastery within email, on the homefront, within your office, how to douse email insanity, and get clear and stay clear on your todos… This may be one of the most curmedgeonly posts in the history of blogging. Okay, that’s a little extreme, but this does have a critical flavor to it. One of the most brilliant “insulters” of the 20th century was Roald Dahl. [...]
iPhone: Mingling with Hollywood & Paving the way for solid Music Copyrights
Just to refute non-Iphone believers (haha!) like Richard Sprague who wrote: “Without even mentioning that the same functionality has been available on PocketPC, Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry for years, I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful). People need this to be a phone, first and foremost. But with 5 hours of battery life? No keypad? “ There simply hasn’t been a good phone on the market. If you flash back to THIS GREAT ARTICLE (when I fink the link, I’ll [...]
Can Our Culture Keep up with Technology?
What is it with technology? How can we keep up with technology and do we futilely use technology to fill emotional voids? From the 11th hour, Thom Hartmann, author of “The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight” asks, “How can we use our understanding of science and technology along with our understanding of culture and how culture changes?” For planetary sustainability as well as simple mental stability, the two must be joined hand-in-hand, growing and expanding as one. Sever culture from technology, and vice e versa, and one’s life experience becomes wrought [...]
Tying in The World of A Story with Modern Shipping
3:51 AMJune 29, 2008 I just recieved an RCA cable (a special tv part I needed) that sold for $6.47 on ebay (including shipping) and it was shipped from Hong Kong! Why is that cool? Well, for one it’s a hella long way to ship something so cheaply. Reflecting upon ancient roman roads which spanned an awe-inspiring 53,819 miles in 450 bc with the laws of Twelve Tables regulating road length and message telegrams, this is amazing. I remember tracking my sweet iPhone as it was shipped from Hong Kong [...]
Chinese New Year Means Good Tidings for all New Resolutioners Catching up to ’08
All this information IS going somewhere after all! Wondering why I wrote such a detailed and thorough article on Solstices and Equinoxes? Well — in addition to my car being an Equinox, having written a screenplay called “The Solstice” about a ship, and my love for nautical science and understanding how our celestial place in the universe creates Natural calendar and seasonal occurrences — the Chinese New Year is BASED ON Solstices and Equinoxes! So you’ll need to read that article I wrote to get the most out of this. [...]
The Emergence of Spiritual Currency
Clearly, the increasing weakness of the dollar spiking the oil prices, and the Nikkei hitting an all-time low due to the decreasing value of the yen are directly, flat-out blatantly obvious, indications that Spiritual Currency is emerging…or that it already has emerged. I coined, founded, and first wrote about this paridigmatic shift almost two years ago late 2005, early 2006, and hints of this galvanizing and energizing phenomenon are finally on the rise. Donald Trumps, Bill Gateses — investors of financial currency — welcome to Hooverville. Investors in spiritual currency, [...]
The Present World with Past and Future Extracted Out of Space-time
From Einstein’s Dreams. Interesting, the idyllic world of immediacy and the present moment with the past and future extracted out. “Employees are not hired because of their resumes, but because of their good sense in interviews. Clerks trampled by their bosses fight back at each insult, with no fear for their future. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past [...]
Know and Deeply Understand What You Want
Perception is less than Reality: False Bifurcations: Know and Deeply Understand What You Want: The Formula for Bifurcation: Establishing this an actual bifurcation is extremely essential to prosperity, happiness and the freedom of knowing what you want, getting what you desire and not experiencing the baggage of burdens, doubts, and uncertainties.Bifurcating is about commitment – relentless commitment, I should say. When you truly commit and will devote every cell, ever second for the rest of your life to achieving what you want in life, you will get it.You will get [...]
The Danger of "Why"
When we ask “why?” to a friend, we must carefully choose our intention so that it is only derived from a genuine source of energizing grace. “Why?” frequently can insinuate covert aggression, harbor anger destructively, and it can imply dubious lack of faith in a person. Why BLANK? Why not? Why ask why? You ask why because you need justification. You do not believe. If you didn’t understand, you would ask “How?”. How explains. Why adjudicates. Why is a question of judgment and as Kierkegaard pointed out, “when you label [...]
Hinduism: Siva, Kali, and Tantra
update 20111011: fail religion rubbish. After sparking up an older email connection with a college religion professor, I recently found some facts about Hinduism fascinating. Siva, for example, according the the mythology, Siva rides around on this Bull, Nandi, wherever he goes. Siva also carries this trisula (trident) weapon; functions as the Destroyer lord (or the whole shebang Destroyer, Creator, and Sustainer god to some Saivites) and the Lord of Dance. Parvati and Siva gave birth to the God of good fortune, Ganesha, who has the elephant head. Parvati, [...]
Tick, Tock of your Life Clock
See, society operates under the illusion that chaos will result if people don’t follow a robotic pattern of 9-5 work to pay the bills, and have your life controlled by the illusion of material wealth and money. Ironically, what ensues from having 9-5 societal booby-traps is precisely what those myths aim to dissolve: chaos. The natural cosmos of trusting your conscience, your intuition, your inner voice perpetuates genuineness in your life with incredible efficacy. Don’t just “take break from your work”. Take off from your work! This does not mean [...]
Denouncing the Villification Bible
The entire DSM operates as just the most foul piece of “sophisticated – highly sophisticated” rubbish out there. The DSM reads as book of sophisticated insults. Its design offers nothing more than a manual of villifications. It’s the bible for rebuking, belittling, and admonishing. The DSM reads ranks highly in the “absolutely foul pieces of Medical literature”. Everyone and every aspect of your life can be “diagnosed” with a disorder in that book. If you eat to fast, or too slow, if you breath too heavily or softly, if you [...]
FUA — Full Universal Address
I’ve come to realize how truly insignificant — because of their instability, tendency to produce conflict, and mercurial nature — most of the religious, political, and social ballyhoo is, compared to the science of our planet, solar system, and galaxy. Squabbling over borders and domains truly is rubbish, when we glance at our global “home”. And considering what “Wired” concluded, only about 24 humans have actually seen the entire earth from space with their own eyes, we could grow a lot by attuning ourselves to our spatial placement. It’s especially [...]
Celebrity Conglomerate Syndrome
Erik Erikkson talked about (after the search for identity commences) four stages of identity development, diffused(haven’t started), foreclosed (prematurely defined), moratorium (still defining), and achieved (identity achievement). One of the biggest things preventing people from reaching identity achievement is “celebrity conglomerate syndrome” (CCS). Where you pick and choose bits and pieces of a celebrity’s personality or clothing or style or appearance to mimick and pile them onto yourself. The problem with this? You end up losing and burying yourself. Your strongest aspect — your identity — gets buried and that’s [...]
A Manual for Fortune-Telling
What follows are key essential pointers for integrating with future horizons. They are: Fortune-telling isn’t chance; to really predict the future you have to understand the interweaving nature of the past, present, and future. You predict the future by utilizing the fusion of imagination, logic, and induction. If you want to predict the future, study the past. Study all angles. Personal knowledge of history and future predictions of events are symmetrical. Your scope of the future is only as in-depth as your comprehension of the past. There is always this [...]
Manufacturing the Dream-Reality Passage
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, your life becomes a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” – Langston Hughes I don’t have an interest in being an Olympic athlete; I don’t have an interest in being a millionaire. Those would be fantastic achievements, and if they happened, I certainly would be excited and appreciative. But those are not my dreams. Those are my father’s dreams, my mother’s dreams, dreams of close friends; my brother and I are very closer so many of those are his dreams – but not [...]
Manufactured Time & Infinite Time
Man made time – man manufactured time — by counting tallies etched in stone and examining the solar and lunar phases, thousands of years ago. The ancient Mayans and Aztecs used advanced astronomy towers to accurately use the sun (which, due to physics) reliably showed the source of time it took for earth to complete one revolution in the solar system. Because of Newton’s first law: An object in motion, stays in motion; and an object at rest, stays at rest” the earth, with no friction in space, has constant [...]
Don't Hoard and Waste Away
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” writes Dante Alighieri in the book “The Inferno” of the epic poem “The Divine Comedy”. In the Fourth Circle, 7th Canto in the bowels of Hell, the guide, Virgil, introduces Dante to the Hoarders and Wasters. Their divine retribution is being bound to incredibly burdensome weights, constantly battling each other. I used to be a Hoarder. I would accumulate games, books, movies, clusterings of material belongings that I thought I would need later on down the line. Now, I was a sophisticated Hoarder, [...]
A Journey Back to the Ancient Maya
The two western-most states in Mexico are Baja California and Baja California Sur. Swing east and the three states that make up the eastern peninsula are (west to east) Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo. Quintana Roo has Cozumel and all the incredible coastal dive spots including the Meso-American reef. Although all three of those eastern peninsula states host beautiful mayan sites, only the Yucata peninsular state is home to the capital city Merida, and sites such as Chitzen-Itza and Uxmaal. This journey details my revisiting of Mexico and travel within [...]
Rules of the Game
Because of its adaptive nature, we are constantly astonished at the rules of the game of life. A huge strategy recently discovered is to structure your life so that you do one day for other people — not so much “helping out”, which can indirectly denigrate or handicap, but sharing, connecting and giving — and then, in a near state of depletion, the next day is for you. This alternates and creates such a metabalized equilibrium of momentum, that the giving days become more fun than the recieving ones. But, [...]
