~C4Chaos

...If We Don't Get Stuck...

"My philosophy is that life is all about learning and growing, and that life can be a real adventure of learning, growing, compassion, and joyfulness. We all have the capability to grow all our lives—if we don't get stuck—in emotional intelligence, wisdom, consciousness, ethical development, and love. And not only individuals are capable of growth. So are organizations such as Whole Foods Market and Grameen Bank, as well as larger collective societies, such as the United States."

-- permaquote @ The Upward Flow of Human Development, via Whole Foods: John Mackey's Blog

Yes my dear friends. Whole Foods Market is doing that Spiral Dynamics thing. Thanks Jon!

NOTE: Co-incidentally (or rather serendipitously), John Mackey is this week's featured guest at Integral Naked. Check out The Future of Business is Integral (Part 1). (premium content; first month is FREE.)

Why Some People Love Integral

Why I love Integral

I love Integral.  By “Integral” I don’t just mean the theory, or my ILP, or the community.  I mean the whole concept.  The worldview.  The lifestyle.  All of it.

The reason I love the Integral worldview so much, is that it grants me the ability to accept and love every aspect of humanity in myself and all others.  Most pre-integral/post-conventional spirituality revolves around a supposed acceptance of everything, with an underlying rejection of so much of life. Love, peace, harmony, acceptance, right?  But that type of spirituality is often anti-everything.  Anti-war, anti-Nike, anti-oil, anti-Microsoft, anti-conservative, anti-meat, anti-business, anti-industry, anti-this, anti-that.  Any of these sound familiar?  I’ve been all of these at some point.

{ permaquotes @ IntegralValley.com }

Very fluffy. Same reasons why I love Integral too.

WTF is a Hole-pooper?

That Scott Adams dude got some BCB! I'm not worthy... please sign my burrito!

"I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes. (Those so-called constitutional things we consider “right.”) And we should be against anything else regardless of our common sense and current knowledge. (Those so-called non-constitutional things we should consider “wrong.”) This bothers me because the hole-poopers didn’t intend the document to be used as a substitute for thinking."

{ permaquote @ The Dilbert Blog }

Also check out part 2.

"Personally, I use a modified version of the Spock test for morality. First I try to figure out what is the greater good. Then I compare it to what is good for me personally. If the two things are the same, I label it “right.” And if the greater good conflicts with my personal benefit, I call that a tie."

Very, very, fluffy.

Dave Winer Will Stop Blogging

I can do it, folks, I have already, in some sense, stopped one of my rivers, and soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, Murphy-willing of course.

It's been a long time coming. When I started blogging, depending on how you look at it, either in 1994, 1996 or 1997, I had different goals, and happily the goals have been accomplished. Billions of Websites now no longer seems an outrageously ambitious goal. We're pretty close to a billion, I suspect. The goal was also to create tools that would make it easy for everyone to have a site, and then more specifically a chronological one. That's done.

{ permaquote @ Scripting News }

So long Dave. Thanks for all your hard work. Here's one for you. Sunset is only for old apps.

The Dilbet Sketch

My blog is the only writing you’ll see from me that doesn’t first go through a professional editor. That means plenty of grammar and punctuation wrecks for you to enjoy. I blame the public education system.

The only reason I dare writing this blog is because I have absolutely no sense of embarrassment. Most people would be horrified at the prospect of proving their ignorance to thousands of readers. My attitude is more along the lines of I have thousands of readers? Cool.

{ permaquote @ The Dilbert Blog }

That's the right attitude (then he corrected the spelling). I wish Ken (aka the reluctant blogger) is reading this...

Cary Tennis On Haunting Regrets

Each of us lives one life and lets the alternative lives die. It's a constant grieving of what could have been -- other lovers, other teachers, other cliffs, other desk jobs, other cars, other coasts, other sorrows.

Those things that might have been branch out infinitely. You could mourn the infinite branchings if you were so inclined. You could mourn every road not driven, every sip not swallowed, every puff not puffed, every pill not popped, every body not unfolded, every face not kissed, every field not plowed, every shirt not unbuttoned, every suit not tried on, every rain not tasted in the annual tasting of rain, every poem not read by every fireplace not lit, every dream not remembered in every sleep not slept.

You could be at it awhile is what I'm saying, if you chose to mourn it all. You just can't. So you choose the big ones. This was a big one. This was a literal life literally unlived.

{ permaquote @ Since You Asked }

Dude With Fluffy Hair Blogs

very fluffy stuff @ glorietta
Originally uploaded by coolmel.

Wow! Malcolm Gladwell just started blogging. Sweet.

In the past year I have often been asked why I don’t have a blog. My answer was always that I write so much, already, that I don’t have time to write anything else. But, as should be obvious, I’ve now changed my mind. I have come (belatedly) to the conclusion that a blog can be a very valuable supplement to my books and the writing I do for the New Yorker. What I think I’d like to do is to use this forum to elaborate and comment on and correct and amend things that I have already written. If you look on my website, on the "Blink" page, you’ll see an expanded notes and bibliography, which mostly consists of copies of emails sent to me by readers. Well, I think I’d like to start posting reader comments for everything I write, and this is a perfect place for that.

There are also times when I think I’ve made mistakes, or oversights, and I’d like to use this space to explain myself and set things right. { permaquote @ gladwell.typepad.com }

I look forward to reading and learning from his wisdom. If The Tipping Point is any indication, his blog will rock. RSS feed from it -- http://gladwell.typepad.com

You see Matthew? Blogging has nothing to do with one's hair :)

I Like Wu-men

"One instant is eternity;
eternity is the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees."

-- Wu-men

Starbucks Junkie #70

Most quotes on those Starbucks cups just plain suck. But once in a while I get some good nuggets of wisdom that appeal to my taste.

The Way I See It #70

It's difficult for people to get rid of junk. They get attached to things and let them define who they are. If there's one thing I've learned in this business, it's that you are what you can't let go of.

-- Brian Scudamore
Founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?

So if you happen to see that cup, read it. Reflect on it. Do a one-minute module on it. Then throw the f*cker away. But don't do it the way I do, because if you drink Starbucks coffee everytime just to find that quote that will speak to you, you'll end up in a deoxyribonucleic hyperdimension where they punish caffeine-overloaded junkies in eternal damnation.

p.s. which reminds me, i really need to get rid of my Optimus Prime boxer shorts. but i think i'll keep my Tinkerbell undies for those very kinky special occasions.

Blogging on Water

Applies to blogging too....

The coolest thing about writing a book is you can announce your thoughts through the published word and share them with readers. The scariest thing about writing a book is that you can be reckless enough to announce your thoughts through the published word and share them with readers.
...
I will keep writing however imperfect my take on things, on truth as I see it, because my understanding is always being upgraded, expanded, clarified as life unfolds itself. But I will try my best to always confront it with greater openness, consciousness, attentiveness and compassion.

{ permaquote @ Writing on Water }

Very fluffy.

Pop Ups

The freekin geocites pop ups are killin me. I'm gonna put my blog somwhere's else and redesign it so its lame.
{ permaquote @ Biz Stone }

Flickring

Today Flickr launched! I could not be more pleased. It was an incredible effort by an incredible team -- two months from start to launch. Bravo!
{ permaquote @ Caterina.net }

MetaFilter, Monster

I've created a monster. MetaFilter continues to get crazy traffic, and with that, I get a crash course in interpersonal community dynamics. I never thought managing a community would be so hard.
{ permaquote @ A Whole Lotta Nothing }

"Logos" Not "Blog"

I PROPOSE A NAME for the intellectual cyberspace we bloggers occupy: the Blogosphere. Simple enough; the root word is logos, from the Greek meaning, variously: In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos; Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves. (The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language)
{ permaquote @ DailyPundit }

Rigorous Blogging

Let me be clear: I have a high respect for journalism, especially good journalism. I think it's rigorous, skilled work. I think it is not easy to do well. And I have a high respect for blogging, especially good blogging. It can be rigorous, skilled work. I know it's not easy to do well.
{ permaquote @ www.rebeccablood.net }

Quote + Permalink = Permaquote

I've been observing and contemplating the ebb and flow of blog posting lately. Sometimes it seems nearly every thought leads to a post, other times, like now, days seem to pass and I find I have nothing to say.
{ permaquote @ www.megnut.com }

Remember the days when quotations are all over printed books -- from self-help, to chicken soup, to new age, to technical manuals? Well, they're still all over. But permaquotes take you directly to their source.