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  1. @sarcastic_f - wowee. some really interesting stuff in here on how loneliness feeds back into action and experience. thx for posting.
  2. grad school stmt of purpose - 1500 words to say i want to study how cmplx systems learn and apply it to the teaching of happiness.
  3. Learning and the Brain conference in Boston Nov 20-22. grad school apps due beg of dec. to go or not to go...
  4. mind & life conf on educating wrld citizns inspiring. i especially enjoyed monk matthieu ricard & developmental neurobiologist takao hensch
  5. happiness 101 starts tomorrow with six folks signed up. session one: What is it? & Daniel Gilbert's TED talk on synthesizing happiness.
  6. working on the Happiness 101 syllabus. suggestions welcome.
  7. heading to obx w/ hofstadter (still), rilke, + gre prep books. might toss in eat, pray, love as i'm the only person who hasn't read it yet.
  8. Hofstadter added to personal hero roster. absolutely loving "I am a Strange Loop."
  9. cant seem to settle into one book: godel, escher, bach OR interior castle OR jung's essays on synchronicity OR... study for GREs
  10. just discovered robert assagioli and his empiricist approach to free will. how come i've *never* heard of psychosynthesis before?
  11. got jesuit paleontologist teilard de chardin's Divine Milieu. xlators kept fr milieu: both center and setting, cause english has no word it
  12. reading Kelso's Dynamic Patterns, the self-organization of brain and behavior. He studies brain as complex system, neural coord for movement
  13. @duffmcduffee if you liked Boroditsky you might also like this Hofstadter: http://prelectur.stanford.e...
  14. Embodied Scrum: complex systems, team bldg, and emotional intelligence http://www.contemplatethis....
  15. @raimalarter indeed. you're an inspiration as i gear up for (re)entering academia while attempting to remain a contemplative. a bit scary.
  16. 10 day silent retreat starts 5/21. yoga nidra, body sensing, partner gazing, LOTS of meditation, and an amazing chef. no tweets 'til june.
  17. dropped $200 on ticket to Mind in Life's Fall Dialog on Cultivating a Healthy, Mind, Brain, and Heart http://www.educatingworldci...
  18. finished paper on: embodied scrum. ran out of time and had to punt on meditation pitch. groundwk solid though. meditation will be frosting.
  19. almost done paper: meditation for kicking scrum teams into high gear. wonder if anyone will read it. my adviser doesn't know what scrum is.
  20. @sline you know lotsa ways. more like wondering when you will *choose* to reduce it.