Woodswimmer

19 Jun 2017

What do you get when slowly grinding and milling pieces of wood? Mesmerizing!

(via Kottke )

history of the entire world, i guess

11 May 2017

From the creator of “history of japan” (I wrote about it here ). This is absolutely awesome. How can you cramp the whole history of the world in less then 20 minutes?

Bruce Lee’s Previously Undiscovered Writings on How to Live a Fulfilling and Successful Life - The Mindful Evolution

20 Apr 2017

Recently, one of Bruce Lee’s “pocketbooks” was discovered, which has given us a chance to delve more deeply into his mind.

There are pictures of the actual notebooks and they are fully transcribed.

Check them out here: https://themindfulevolution.com/bruce-lees-previously-undiscovered-writings-on-how-to-live-a-fulfilling-and-successful-life/.

(via The Cramped ).

Start

19 Apr 2017

Some advice I need to follow myself!

Making a canoe

06 Apr 2017

Rihards Vidzickis is a Latvian woodworker who shows us how to make a dugout canoe, starting with a log and ending with a beautiful canoe using mostly traditional hand tools and techniques. Well worth watching for the full 18 minutes and 44 seconds.

(via Kottke ).

Meaningful work

11 Jan 2017

Not all work will be meaningful. Some will be meaningful to others but not for you. Some, will be drudgery. Some, will be necessary. Some will just be the thing you have to do until the next thing you have to do comes along until finally, after so much just-stuff, something will come along that is meaningful until, eventually, you’re done with that and doing the next thing you do because it’s just the thing you have to do. The everyday meaningful work is very rare and even then is punctuated by small bursts of just-stuff that you have to do to support the meaningful. But, the true meaning of work will come when one accepts that all work is meaningful work and none of it is and that both of these are simultaneously true.

Rhone Koan Meaningful Work