There’s a lot of fluff written on gratitude, and it’s easy for those trained in engineering (including myself) to be readily dismissive and miss out on something transformative. So I wanted to write an article addressed specifically to hackers and engineers – starting from first order principles of experience, and providing a heuristic to transform…
Category: Mindfulness
Dropping Into Wonder Before Dropping Into Work
Lost in a Powerful Virtual Reality Headset Picture the scene: the pandemic is over and you find yourself at CES in Las Vegas. You enter the crowded floor and a shiny device in the center of the room immediately grabs your attention. It’s the most sophisticated virtual reality headset that has ever been invented. You…
Love or Fear in America: Learning from Germany, Singapore, and Israel
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Victor Frankl We each face a choice in every single moment: to act from a place of love or fear. Fear wins by default, and for good reason….