Category: Mindhack
Events Don’t Exist
In my life, I try to imagine events don’t exist at all. That there will never be some major “thing” that happens which changes anything dramatically in my life. See, I’ve noticed a lot of people go through life waiting…
Hacking the Human Mind
“The intelligent want self-control, children want candy.” – Rumi Last week I gave a talk about the progress I’ve made on my meditation platform. In it, I went into a little more depth about the whys behind meditation, stressing how…
Hacking Meditation with the Arduino
TLDR; Meditation done right changes your physiology. You can monitor these changes to your physiology using off the shelf components and the Arduino. Learning to meditate sucks, because there’s no way to know whether you’re doing it right. And if…
7 Subtle Reasons You Should Be Meditating Daily
Meditation is simply space to play with the functioning and processes of your mind. To learn to override the embedded processes, and direct your mind completely. We just sit still and focus our attention to breathing, and let an awareness…
I thought we were hackers.
What happened to us? A decade ago, we had this manifesto, how we were the creative ones who could bend and melt reality, with our mind alone. That we could take any unsolvable problem, and build a thousand creative solutions.…
Murder Your Shortcuts
I never really understood cooking properly until I learned about what the French call “mise en place”. It means literally, “putting in place”. It’s the process of gathering everything for cooking before the actual cooking happens. With mise en place,…
Hacking My Health, Building My Startup
Six months ago, I got an idea. I was burdened by the growing complexity at my day job as lead web developer, and felt like there had to be a better way. I read a statistic that the amount of information doubles…
How I Built a $600 / mo Product In One Day
I’ve been working on a few big projects recently, and became frustrated with the inertia built into launching anything big. Sometimes it seems like things will never be ready; like there’s just too much to do. So I decided to…
Action Cures Fear
Fear of Failure. It’s what keeps entrepreneurs up at night, worried about their massive investments in capital and time. Do I have the right idea? Have I developed it enough? Will it work? Take Action Now When I developed my…
You Must Become a Reality Merchant
Everybody wants to feel strong and powerful, and in control of their reality. However, our society grows more disconnected every day. Rapid advances in technology render todays learning obsolete by tomorrow. We are losing the immediate knowledge of our own…