Posts tagged mindful
How To Dismantle Your Apartment in Less Than 6 Weeks
One year ago at this time, I did something noone prepared me for: I reduced everything that I own to the size of a suitcase. Why? My wife and I had decided to move to a foreign country which was almost 3,000 kilometers away. Shipping the contents of our apartment (furniture, dishes, my homestudio equipment…
How To Use The Net To Escape The Net
Internet, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of our daily enterprise to seek out all relevant information and contact others like us. To explore. To travel the vast expanse of data, where no man has gone before… We have come to live in a world that is so technologically advanced…
How To Slow Down Your Life And Kick-Start Your Online Business
In a recent study by San Francisco State University 12 college students were observed while composing text-messages. All of them showed signs of increased heart rate, respiration, skin conductance and electrical activity in their muscles. Not only did 83 % report hand and neck pain and holding their breath during texting, also most of them…
Are You Greener than Your Grandpa?
This post is about a form of environmentalism as portrayed by Bruce Sterling in his 2009 Reboot 11 closing talk. 2 years old yes, but as valid as ever. Before we come to this, let me lay out some context. Where has the future gone? The present: Any grand notions of unified progress of “bigger,…
Getting Rid of the ‘Mindful’ Myth
Sometimes we use words without thinking too much about what they mean or where they come from. And while it is true that in everyday communication, where we tend to speak very vaguely, the “gist of it” is generally enough to make yourself understood, today, I want to take a closer look at the word…