The Snail Shell

I just read this book, Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English . I got it because I had read Mindfulness in Plain English and it was very good...

Buddhism aside (whew! I do worry about this blog getting religious.), I read a thing about how people had the best moods when either their...

A bunch of them, recently. Sometimes I wonder if that's okay to do. I wonder this more whenever I read or think a lot about Buddhism, w...

I've kind of taken it for granted my entire life that working for money isn't a good idea, that things aren't worth worrying ab...

One question with undertaking a quest like "get enlightened" is: how do I plan to do this? I'm not prepared to give up my car...

As I'm taking a year of life that is different than most life, I get a good chance to reflect on ways I want my next settled life (that...

I'd say "plan of attack", but that doesn't sound right. Two weeks ago, I was starting a 10-day meditation course, for o...

I spent 10 days at a Buddhist Vipassana meditation course led by S.N. Goenka. I've explained more about the course itself on my travel ...

Okay okay, 10 days without talking, and I love to talk. I have a lot of things to say. I am very limited by my internet connectivity, and t...

CMU HCII, MIT Media Lab, and the NSF and NDSEG fellowships. CMU and MIT were mostly done already, but the fellowships required me to write a...

I just finished a book about Buddhism that's been much more accessible and useful than any other book about Buddhism that I've read...

Here in India, everyone's car has a stereo, and they all have a little USB stick full of Indian mp3's plugged in. As I have a USB s...

Say, the size of our solar system. What would life be like then? - almost no chance of ever finding life on other planets - we'd have to...

Assuming I'm going to vanish into blissful nirvana in about 50 years, it'd be a good idea to leave behind some documentation. I gues...

Here I am again, in my parents' house, riding bikes around Westlake, and filling out apps for colleges. What is this, 2003? Here's ...

It almost feels like a life stage: during the last three years, I learned to Consume Well. By "Consuming Well" I mean either consu...

On the super-hosed side, there's the fact that we have so much debt. What, we're going to cut 2 trillion dollars... over the next N ...

No better time to write the post than now. Here's a guide from a 3-year local who lived in Capitol Hill. Really, we all want lists, rig...

A month and a half ago, I looked at Facebook vs Google+ pros/cons . What's changed since then? - this chrome extension  hides the red n...

Lately I've felt very goal-oriented. I have a hard deadline to move out, so all the moving has to happen before then. So, too, does my w...