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.
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
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
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)
This is the most obvious culture presentation I’ve read. There’s almost nothing business here, it’s all common sense. Something that seems to go out the window in most offices/businesses. Not sure how lived this is, but on paper, this is so obvious it needs to be saved/blogged.