oh hooray another GeekDinner! Thanks Mike for organising :-) and Graham for sponsoring the delirium juice - which I will be staying clear of this time!
Think this one’s going to be a rowdy one .. seen some names on the wiki that I know to be purveyors of playful mischief, amongst some seriously smart beings heading out.
In Jo’burg on Thursday 5th October? Want to connect with some of South Africa’s freshest memetic engineers and blazing tech talent? Want to find out why all the fuss about Web 2.0, social media, integrated marketing, and what relevance it has to your business? Perhaps discover the potency of blogging as a political tool within Africa for freedom and dignity?
Or even just hang out with fascinating peops and drink free (fabulous) wine?
..then what the hell are you waiting for >> get your fingers & eyes over to the wiki IMMEDIATELY and add your name before all the places are gone (then you too will have to go on a fat mission to undo your procrastination habit so you don’t keep missing out on great opportunities… go go!)
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I’ve no good excuse for not posting other than maybe that I need firmer discipline (ouch!).
Harnessing passion, vision, determination fuelled by an unwavering sense of purpose with superior logistics = crystallised genius. It’s the latter bit of the equation I’ve been missing.. and it’s starting to hurt. [Acceleration demands integrity so all the particles move in the same direction so they don't get blown apart and descend into chaos].
Beginning an thought experiment this week that deeply challenges my inherent need for freedom. By commiting wholeheartedly to a crisp time schedule [with a much needed overlord (thanks Dr Don) to oversee the proceedings for good measure - he comes bearing a big steel ruler]. He promises to be formidably icy if I try to crack the system with charm! Good luck bru :-P
Freshly inspired by the temporal-warping thoughts of the legendary Steve Pavlina, particularly on productivity and applying classic Max style, I’m giving it horns!
This HAS to work or I’m screwed. (I’d have to surrender: hand my little spirited self back to the deadening dumbed-down drone-thronged world of work that bright humans get suckered into with the false promise of freedom, at the cost of fullbodied thumping ALIVENESS and meaningful, maybe even legendary effect) WHAT!? what am I thinking!?
This has to work.
Do you have a life/work/time altering master-secret that really works? If you have any secrets or clues to refining focus to laser point and being hyper-productive yet still happy PLEASE share!
It’s a daily battle not to sweetly surrender to the narcoleptic siren call to just chill that CapeTown suffuses softly, but firmly around those who might dare to be productive.. so for the geopsychologically challenged in particular who have overcome..bring it on!
All tweaks welcomed.. with the baseline requirement that it allows me to actually drink the coffee and not obsess about the cup.
PS. just discovered that I am not alone in this endeavour this week .. thanks Scott for the links (quietly thinks : excellent, more Work Avoidance Behaviour incoming.. reams of reading & research on how to just get things done, and then the bonus of organising the necessary GTD support group) …mmm can see I’d be well on the way to a very sore bottom if I try to make this an artform as many time-management devotees have discovered.. instead of just bloody doing it
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Want to flip the AVERAGE BIRTHDAY PARTY concept on its head? Continue reading ‘partying.. peacefully’
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You know when you get the feeling that you’re getting a nudge from life to refresh? There’s an upgrade available & you’d better bloody well do the install NOW.
Spring fever in all its rampant exuberance is starting to course in my blood. Within a week the Southern Hemisphere world has transformed into a bright wonderland: the air is warm & silky and smells like freshly cut grass and promise. Feeling it too?
I’m lucky enough to live close to the beach & walked out to stick my toes in the sand early this morning.. and realised that the big blue water has gone through her own mood change too. In winter the Cape waters are a big wave riders paradise: the Atlantic is frigid, powerful and demanding.. if you go into her depths you’d better know what you’re doing or be in jeopardy of a solid hammering.
But in summer she flips playful and most inviting in crystalline tranquil turquoise (in a heart-stopping surprise/practical joke kind of way when you dive into the still bracingly chill - thoroughly invigorating! FUN)
Anyway as I was saying.. it’s the time for reinvention. Ah perhaps re.creation?! Maximizing 2.0 :)
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For those of us magical beings choosing to play in this dimension (you may not realise it, but yes, that includes YOU) you may occassionally brush with some brutish barbarians. (Boggled by the term muggle? do check it). I was indeed mugged by a muggle two nights ago. I wasn’t terribly distraught, definitely a bit bummed that I had to say cheers to the cybershot & phone as they effected an enforced redistribution though.
The freaky thing is I got to negotiate with my suddenly significant armed mugger to determine what he’d find valuable as a take-away, rather than dash off into the blackness with ALL my goodies which would be largely useless to him. I called him back as was running off & he duly returned (?!) and more bizarrely, he handed my bag to me & waited while I found the sacrificial saleable items. Think he was more startled than me in the end, yelling back as he dissolved into the night that I was f*cking lucky!! Mmm, true that.
(So to those who have been trying to call me to no avail, my apologies , I’m sorting out my comms this afternoon) Continue reading ‘dealing gracefully with the muggles’
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to your courage - Anais Nin
There is nothing quite so sweet clear and pulse-racing than being in the presence of someone who is living their life’s purpose. passionately. These are beings who bear a beauty made only more attractive by their battle-scars. Humans who have really used their hearts, minds, bodies and let life live through them.
They are disproportionately sexy.
Those who dare to look ridiculous. As they foolishly and audaciously take on dragons and dreams far beyond their human capabilities or common sense. Without those who get laughed out of hand because they believed the impossible, humanity would still be pottering about in fear of the wrathful weather gods from their caves.
Speak your mind and stand up for what you passionately believe in, your environment may not support you and others may ridicule you. And you may not even be right this time. But in the tradition of the Wright brothers, Copernicus, Gallileo, Bell, Magellan, Branson, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Soichiro Honda, Churchill, .. if you have a vision it is your clarity that helps us out of the doldrums of chaos that we humans occassionally drop into, and so becomes your responsibility if you have seen further. The mark of the great is that they don’t let the limited holding pattern of current reality stop them from helping to guide humanity to higher ground. No matter what.
Schopenhauer said it best: All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
This aspect of genius has nothing to do with being especially talented. It has everything to do with the guts it takes to really LIVE in this crazy chaotic shared game.space. It is true genius though, and requires a distinct intelligence. 
Courage comes from the original French root Coeur (heart). Those lionhearted among us have an intelligence not governed by solely by rationality, but one that offers absurd amounts of strength, determination and insight that outstrip all logic. This was Einstein’s singular genius above all. . making the heuristic jump to truth that had not been imagined before, to see the solution and progressively use empirical evidence to fill in the gaps to create the bridge for reality to catch up. Continue reading ‘What makes Genius : Part 1 : Courage’
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Does your environment strengthen & inspire you? 
I live in a city that is like a big natural energy power-station to my soul. This place is spirit-soaringly lovely. Considered one of the world’s most beautiful cities, nestled between the big blue Atlantic Ocean & towering granite mountains, exquisitely clothed in the planet’s most richly diverse floral kingdom. Ringed by rambling vineyards and white sand beaches, could it get more gorgeous? Oh yes.. and the humans emerge in abnormally beautiful varieties here too %-)
Continue reading ‘Geolocating.. my local Power Station’
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There is something so exhlirating::so electric about watching massive late afternoon thunderheads banking against the blue highveld summer sky .. the anticipation of the powerful heavy storm to come. Growing up in Jo’burg has
infused my body with this natural sequence as indelible cellular memories.
I miss it sometimes.
It’s what gives balance & strength when the inner skies have darkened and not letting fear have its way. The rumbling thunder, phosphorescent arcs of lightning and drenching rain bring life, energy & renewal in their wake to the baked city streets. Nature none too subtly reminds us that everything is seasonal.. no matter what you’re going through it will give way to the next elemental shift.
The concept of the gathering storm fascinates me (great film on the uncrushable Winston Churchill - of the same name worth checking BTW).. but neither rainstorms, nor the impending global storm rolling in on the human family’s horizon is what I wanted to post about.
It’s actually what I meant to say at the end of our geek dinner instead of the stream of who-knows-what that actually came out. Continue reading ‘Gathering Stormhoek’
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