November 2015

Forecasting our memories

> When the Long Now audience of 2515 looks back on the audience of 2015, their level of contempt for how we go about judging political debate will be roughly comparable to the level of contempt we have for the 1692 Salem witch trials. – [Philip Tetlock](http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/nov/23/superforecasting/) It will be interesting to see–and invent–the ways…more

Chasing rainbows

A nice image from my [Headspace](https://www.headspace.com/) meditation this morning: Imagine your thoughts as rainbows. They can be inspiring and impressive, but ultimately they’re just an illusion. Look at them from another direction and they disappear; chase after them and you’ll never get any closer. But let go of them and they’ll surprise you with unexpected…more

Big and small world

“In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.” – Wallace Stevens