Month: January 2019

I’m focusing on organization both physically and digitally. This means making a beautiful and effective work space. The tiny moments of frustration searching for lost cables and having a cluttered desk adds friction towards excellence. Likewise, I’m often missing and searching for items like my car keys, phone, and random gloves/hats. So, I instituted a…

Sometimes, residents at the monastery run different personal experiments. Daniel once went a long time without eating any sugary desserts. If anyone saw him about to eat one, we could remind him, and he had to hand it over. One time, Pan went vegan for several months in honor of another vegan friend. Several residents…

For many of us when we practice meditation or any difficult skill, there can be an inner voice monitoring and telling ourselves what to do. For example, “Okay. We’re going to meditate now. Just pay attention to your breathe…..No, don’t think about that. Come back……Geez, this doesn’t work. I can’t do this. This place is…

In this article, I will give tips on how to effectively use Facebook for personal benefit while removing the possibility for addiction and misuse. Facebook, along with Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and such are incentivized to capture your attention as much as possible. Their primary source of revenue is advertising therefore the more time you are…