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Podcast – The Tim Ferriss Show. The Tim Ferriss Show is generally the #1 business podcast on all of iTunes, and it’s been ranked #1 (of all 300,000+ podcasts) on many occasions. It is the first business/interview podcast to pass 100,000,000 downloads, and it has been selected as iTunes’ “Best of 2014,” “Best of 2015,” and “Best of 2016” (most downloaded). Each episode, I deconstruct world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more. Prior guests include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Foxx, Edward Norton, Tony Robbins, Maria Popova, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Amanda Palmer, Malcolm Gladwell, Rick Rubin, Reid Hoffman, Jon Favreau, Whitney Cummings, Mike Shinoda, and dozens more.

Salon has included the podcast in their list of “suggestions to make you remember the world can be a good place.” How to Not Be Evil – Dr. Mr. A.J. B.J. Landcruising Adventure » Every mile tells a story. Make Me Care | A Beautiful Anarchy. The other day I found a website I liked. Nice design. Good words. They make beautiful things.* I mentioned them in a “really not the point, but you should check this out” kind of way on my photography blog. We don’t know each other, or didn’t at the time. There was nothing in it for me. I spent more time on their blog, reading stories, looking at their Instagram feed, and getting lost in it. That is how creatives do business, and do it beautifully, and sustainably. That is how creatives do business, and do it beautifully, and sustainably.

That’s what makes a great story, great photograph, or great marketing. *Check out Artifact Uprising (and their blog). Blog: 3,000-mile (+ 400) Reflections. There is something about pilgrims that touches one's heart. And somehow people in Casa de Paz have been blessed with the presence of many of them. This is just the latest one. I chose to write this post for the different degrees of serendipity and the inherent level of trust in humanity. :-) While I didn't know brother Zilong Wang was one of these pilgrims --"23" laps-around-the-Sun! "Buddha taught that his teachings are like boats for us to cross the river. And if you read his 3000-mile reflections you'll find: "If various religions are different ways to cross the same River of Life, why should we fight over which boat is the right, supreme boat, and sink each other before we even get half way across the river?

" This young brother crossed the continent from coast to coast andnever locked his dragon horse --his bike. That's when serendipity needs to be shared in written form ;-) In his reflections he also says: "Going across the country, the number of bad people I've encountered is ZERO. Occupy Movement | Pancho Ramos | Occupy Love. “It’s so important that we have a conscious mind. How are we going to restore our relationships? If we are advocating for harmonious community, and we would love to have a sense of justice and prosperity, we cannot be using the same methods and the same tactics. Ends and means for me are the same.” Francisco ‘Pancho’ Ramos Stierle is a Mexican-born former astrophysics student turned full-time community activist and humanitarian. He became a known figure of the Occupy movement after being arrested while meditating during the dismantling of the Occupy Oakland Camp.

The man everyone calls Pancho was previously a doctoral student of astrophysics at the University of California at Berkeley, but when he realized his work would serve as one of the institution’s facades to create “safer nuclear weapons,” he resigned from the program, stopped cooperating with the university and became involved in community organizing. Visit his blog: Occupy Movement | Visionaries | Occupy Love.

The New Adventures of Stephen Fry. Woody Allen.