ryan
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Comment · 3 years ago
My protocol is:
1) clear your mind
2) prime your mind
3) flow your truth
1. Clear your mind
Spend 30 minutes meditating, preferably first thing when you wake up.
Pick something that works for you. A simple practice: • Allow whatever happens to happen • When you notice you are trying to control your attention, drop that intention
2. Prime your mind
Spend 30min reading or listening to high-quality content. I like listening to great spiritual teachers and philosophers. In any case, pick something that your interest is drawn to. Make it BIG and not empty calories.
3. Flow your truth
30-60min of writing. Let it flow.
Bonus points for publishing your writing - it will add sharpness and clarity to your thinking.
Also consider walking. I find I get many of my epiphanies lately when I'm walking the dogs in the evening. I take type notes or voice notes on my phone.
Comment · 12 years ago
And then you realize the dust is made of stars...
Comment · 13 years ago
I like the simple/clean UI
Comment · 14 years ago
If you have a green card you can avoid this by signing up for Global Entry[1]. Then you can avoid customs lines and just swipe your card at the kiosk - enter the country without ever talking to anyone. As an extra benefit the kiosk is always empty so you are through in minutes... hmm maybe I shouldn't be spreading the word about this :)
Comment · 14 years ago
I love the concept of living in the future. I recently read the biography of Dan Raymer, a well-known aerospace designer, which was appropriately titled 'Living in the Future'[1]. This is because for most of his career he had been working on secret aircraft designs that the rest of the worldn't see for 20 years. Truly living in the future.
There's also the excellent quote attributed to William Gibson[2] "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed". That's probably the biggest reason I live in silicon valley - there is a disproportionate amount of 'future' distributed here.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Living-Future-Education-Adventures-Adv... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson
Comment · 14 years ago
You seem to have the premise that materialism is incontrovertibly bad?
Comment · 14 years ago
In this video Elon states he came up with his idea for an electric plane at Burning Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8#t=20m19s
Comment · 14 years ago
They are probably 'smoke testing' whether it's worthwhile to spend the effort making a video, based on the percentage of people that try to play it.
Comment · 14 years ago
Like any sector that hasn't been totally disrupted yet, it's inevitable that technology will change the game. But subject matter expertise and relationships do matter a lot (especially in fashion) so we brought on a director of biz dev who's worked at Chanel and other fashion brands and we are pursuing partnerships with top names in fashion.
Plus, my Stanford/Google background notwithstanding I actually do enjoy fashion :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks pg & jessica for getting me out to NY for YCNYC. It's been onwards and upwards since then :)