The idea of “social entrepreneurs” has been around for a few decades, and though second-rate thinkers believe it’s a model for the future, it belongs to the past.
Meditations
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Nikola Tesla is rolling over in his grave. Tesla was an even greater inventive genius than Edison. He wanted to provide the world with free energy. A few days ago…
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I dislike the term ‘mystical experience.’ What happens in the brain during meditative states is neither mystical, nor an experience. It’s an event, a phenomenon that’s new each time.
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Just after I take my seat for a meditation at the place with a long view downstream, a young, scruffy, unhappy-looking young man charges into the site. It’s an unseasonably…
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As dawn broke in the east, the moon, emerging from eclipse, neared the western horizon. Across the surface of our perpetual celestial partner was etched the sharp shadow of a…
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Watch any five minutes of President Trump’s State of the Union Speech on YouTube, and you’ll agree that he channeled Mussolini for the entire address. From the fixed, jutting chin…
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My mother, may she rest in peace (or already be reborn and growing in learning in her or his next life), was an ardent anti-communist. “When the Russians finally throw…
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It was sprinkling when I left the house, and 20 minutes into the sitting downstream from Cedar Grove in Chico’s big city park it began to rain fairly hard. I…