Blog of Wade Making Connexions

Present Writing, Musing

I sit here now reflective of how much support I’ve received over the years. To be writing in WordPress, on a laptop, to understand HTML, how web servers work, humbling. It’s easy to focus on one part of life, escaping the cosmic picture.

Self Focus. Building networks is/are great. It helps. It enables other to help themselves in the same way that I have been taught and continue to learn off others. We do not do this alone.

There’s lots I could have, should have linked to over this time, but I’ve been too busy—Self Occupied. I pushed away current events to focus on the bigger picture of helping others. Easy to say to take a leaf out of my own book.

The realization’s been coming for a while, a root canal broke through. Awoken me to human existence, interconnectedness, and the not need or fascination, but the reality of sharing.

The gaps of silence have been a learning period. Sometimes there is too much of silence—it has a place, but only to some end. Impossible is just a word. There is huge inequality and suffering in the world, I believe we are working on this. The internet plays a role, as have all the forms of infrastructure and communication networks before it. I look to a happy world, and a bright future.

I understand that I must look after myself, but also to not self-isolate. Playing hero isn’t hero at all, it’s a little silly, and potentially life risking.

I’m not thinking reinvention, that’d be running away. The ecosystem of life, our balance and relation that’s where I’m coming from/to. No agile touch, management speak. Meditation helps me, as does Yoga.

We all have specializations and skills. We all have experiences and life stories to learn from each other. To be closed it to reduce the world.

A stake in time. A slower pace of life. What’s really important is not Class A networks aka 16,777,216 host nodes. They are needed, but what’s more important is water, food, shelter, health, and for things like Internets, Electricity.

All resources end. I feel my goal/our goal is to be here, understand we are fortunate and from here be ourselves. The future in this regard isn’t magical, it’s always from now. It is exciting to be alive, the online/offline world has changed, in my eyes, so much over the past few years. 3D Movies couldn’t have existed. Technology. It’s a story, talking about our lives and emotions, which is the purpose…a journey. To allow us, to reflect and pause.

In this way, open-ness is a form of creation. Web, Social, Art, Music work for me. We all have our things. I’ve been putting mine off and away. Time to live, time to be. I feel/find the lessons of my life are powerful in the moment, but often only later do I understand what it is that I’ve actually learnt, but then what? Right?

I’m humbled to be alive in 2010, thankful to have had so many amazing experiences, and am looking forward to wholly entering and experiencing many more to come.

Treasure Island Wireless - SF.Gov + Nodecity

Over the past few months I’ve been tweeting about Treasure Island. Not the one from the movie, but an island in San Francisco.

What I’ve been doing over there is helping SF.Gov’s Department of Technology deploy a Cisco Wireless Mesh.

Instead of blabbing on about it, I’ve put together a 5 minute 27 second video, below.

Treasure Island Wireless - SF.Gov + Nodecity from Nodecity on Vimeo.

Threads of Interest, Shared for You

Here’s a few tips, quotes, mindsets, ideas, concepts I’ve been recently reading. These have all struck me strongly for one reason or another, thus they’ve ended up here—Shared for You.

My So Called Freelance Life

Suggesting an hourly rate or flat project fee without knowing the nature, complexity, and scope of the work is financial suicide. You can, however, offer up a price range. Link

Unity of Circle, through the triangle to the manifest form of the square.
 

Sacred Geometry

If we divide the full height of the human body into the harmonic divisions of the square root of 2, calling the total height unity, we locate the vital center corresponding to what the Japanese call hara (belly), a subtle physical center, just below the navel. The figure will measure 2–√2   from the soles of the feet to the navel center, and √2  –1 from the navel center to the top of the head. In Zen practice this center is associated with a meditational technique of rooting, involving an intensification of the powers of physical self-control and self-transmutation. Tantric teaching in India, on the other hand, seeks to elevate this serpent or root so that it lends its energy to the higher, transformative glandular centers. Link

Simplexity

There have long been plenty of reasons—to believe that urban centers are shaped by laws more powerful than mere municipal planning ordinances. There’s the odd cellularity of a city glimpsed from an airplane window at night, a splatter of light resembling nothing so much as a brain cell, with the axons and dendrites of highways connecting it to the other cells—other cities—nearby. Link

Escape from Cubicle Nation

Each of us has natural, organic preferences for how we feel the most alive, relaxed, happy, and passionate at work. These can include things like; Physical work environment, Type of business, Business culture, Communication styles of managers/clients/co-workers, Size of business, Type of work content, Skills and talents used in work. Link

Bullying Bosses: A Survivor’s Guide

Potential allies might include people who live their lives naturally aware that we’re all bound together in our human interdependence. They might be active in community, church, or school affairs. On the job, they’re the ones most inclined to work with others on a project, a team, or for a cause and so they might also be willing to work with the Warrior. Unfortunately, most people aren’t like that. Link

Summing Up Diet

In this world there exist four main classifications of diet:

(1) A lax diet conforming to habitual desires and taste preferences. People following this diet sway back and forth erratically in response to whims and fancies. This diet could be called self-indulgent, empty eating.

(2) The standard nutritional diet of most people, proceeding from biological conclusions. Nutritious foods are eaten for the purpose of maintaining the life of the body. It could be called materialist, scientific eating.

(3) The diet based on spiritual principles and idealistic philosophy. Limiting foods, aiming toward compression, most “natural” diets fall into this category. This could be called the diet of principle.

(4) The natural diet, following the will of heaven. Discarding all human knowledge, this diet could be called the diet of non-discrimination.

People first draw away from the empty diet which is the source of countless diseases. Next, becoming disenchanted with the scientific diet, which merely attempts to maintain biological life, many proceed to a diet of principle. Finally, transcending this, one arrives at the non-discriminating diet of the natural person. (Excerpt from The One-Straw Revolution)