EXTROPY

The progress, growth, diversification, and discovery (that we see both in the technological sphere and also in the bio-sphere) appear incremental only locally; cosmically they are exponential trends.

✳ 3D Printing & Hope for the Future
✳ The 7 Mechanisms of Aging
✳ 65 MYA: An Explosion of Life
✳ The Calyx Institute – A New Class of ISP
✳ Cory Doctorow: The Coming War on General Purpose Computing
✳ Extropy +1: Intelligence Pops
✳ Extropy +2: Extropian Forefathers
✳ Extropy +3: Growing Up
✳ Extropy +4: Simulating Robot Evolution
✳ Extropy +5: Stem Cells
✳ Extropy +6: Creative Thinking
✳ Extropy +7: Game Theory
✳ Extropy +8: Room to Expand
✳ Extropy +9: DNA-based Bio-Computers
✳ Extropy +10: A Transhumanist Declaration
✳ Extropy +11: When Civilizations Meet
✳ Extropy +12: Khan Academy
✳ Extropy +13: Toasters
✳ Extropy +14: Google Lunar X-Prize
✳ Extropy +15: Ornithopter
✳ Extropy +16: Space (Research) Tourism
✳ Extropy +17: New Retinas
✳ Extropy +18: Solar 3D Printer
✳ Extropy +19: Canadian Polymer Bank Notes
✳ Extropy +20: Waste-Powered Robots
✳ Extropy +21: MegaBox for Mega-Sharing
✳ Extropy +22: Complete Map of Antarctica
✳ Extropy +23: Beating Ourselves
✳ Foundation for the “The Last Question” (Meaning of Life in a Developing Universe)
✳ The Four Laws of Robotics (Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ Series)
✳ Future Shock (Minus One)
✳ Future Shock (Minus Two)
✳ Future Shock (Minus Three)
✳ Geriatrics, Gerontology, & Maintenance
✳ In Google We Trust
✳ The Internet in 1981 — 32 Years Ago!
✳ The Methuselarity
✳ My Next Mobile OS: Boot to Gecko
✳ Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Singularity
✳ Nerd Nihilism
✳ New Tech Projects (Summer 2012)
✳ Nootropics, i.e. “Safe” Smart Drugs
✳ Nöosphere
✳ Perl
✳ Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
✳ PredPol @ Tacoma (Catch those Pokémon!)
✳ Python
✳ Rupert Sheldrake – Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion
✳ The Singularity: When Computers Overtake Humans
✳ Spools of Nanotube Fiber @ Rice University
✳ Strong, Sustainable, & FAST.
✳ Thorium Reactors FTW
✳ Using games to teach
✳ Very Cool Robot
✳ World Population Growth
✳ Yes. Self-powered.

WU-WEI & THE GOOD LIFE

The Earth speaks to you, but ever so slowly — the wise speak too, but their voices are drowned out.

✳ Alan Watts on Nothingness
✳ Attachment to Illusion
✳ Bruce Lee, the Dragon
✳ [Censored]
✳ Culture Shock: Sudan to USA
✳ Dos Centavos de Sabiduría
✳ Dr. Cornel West at Skidmore
✳ The Examined Life
✳ A Habitual Vision of Greatness
✳ Hold the Stumbles, Plz.
✳ How TV Ruined Your Life (3)
✳ Melting Snow (Rumi)
✳ Nice and Easy Now
✳ On Cancer & How to Beat It
✳ Put us in our place
✳ Sagan’s Profound Words
✳ Secret Passages, Waking Life
✳ Share, Please.
✳ So Vital to Unplug…
✳ Take Ten Minutes
✳ Technology needs a soul injection.
✳ Telomerase & Meditation
✳ Thich Quang Duc, Buddhist Monk
✳ Thoughts Branching into Visions
✳ Thrivenote #118
✳ Tiger & Dogs Playing
✳ Time Is The Material
✳ Working Hard to Enlighten
✳ Wu-Wei @ 1%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 2%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 3%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 4%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 5%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 6%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 7%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 8%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 9%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 10% – Rulers
✳ Wu-Wei @ 11%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 12% – Middle View
✳ Wu-Wei @ 13%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 14% – The Paradox of Our Age
✳ Wu-Wei @ 15% – Be an Explorer!
✳ Wu-Wei @ 16%
✳ Wu-Wei @ 17% – Wind in the Forest

SHORT STORIES

✳ I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
✳ The Last Answer
✳ The Last Question
✳ Let’s help germinate this seed. (Talking to God)
✳ Profession, by Asimov

MY THRIVENOTES, POEMS, & OTHER WRITINGS

✳ 3 Haiku
✳ 3 Line Story
✳ 3 Years in Turkey
✳ The 3rd Level of Consciousness
✳ 6-Word stories
✳ A Dream of a Volunteer Economy
✳ Analysis
✳ Apotheosis Takes a Wrong Turn
✳ Be Ready for World Citizenship
✳ Beyond Here Be Dragons (POEM)
✳ Buffering the Storm (POEM)
✳ Building 1984
✳ Curtains
✳ Destiny Hack – The Original Thrivenotes ‘About’ Poem
✳ Don’t Escape So Fast
✳ Don’t Neglect to Direct When You Act
✳ Just Ghosts
✳ A Letter from RDO (of Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ Series)
✳ Liberating Consciousness
✳ Mind Is Pond (POEM)
✳ Ocean of Glass
✳ Old Man, Time
✳ One Step at a Time
✳ Quiescent
✳ Seneca: All Life is Slavery
✳ Soy la cascada. (POEM: Español)
✳ A Static Kind of Truth (POEM)
✳ Staying Solid in an Ocean of Corrosivity (POEM)
✳ This Is About the Right Width
✳ Thrive On, Thrive Out (POEM)
✳ Unwriting the Nonexistent
✳ Were I This Blank (POEM)
✳ What’s the Past-tense of Flow Again?
✳ The Wind Song (LYRICS)
✳ The Words of Unsung Songs (POEM)

QUOTES

✳ 5 Great Buddha Quotes
✳ Benjamin F. & Siddhārtha G.
✳ Eloquence (Rumi)
✳ The Independence of Solitude
✳ Kierkegaard Quotes: Either/Or
✳ Line 26
✳ Nice Advice (For Writers)
✳ Not-so-common Nietzsche Quotes
✳ Responsible Mind-Use Policy
✳ Seneca the Younger Once Said…
✳ Shinigami Philosophy
✳ A Simple Morning Meditation
✳ This way…
✳ Tilopa

MUSIC

✳ Around the World (kid dub/daft punk)
✳ Closer by the Kings of Leon
✳ DJ Zorm Dream Trance
✳ Fools Can Be Kings (Muse)
✳ Hey Jude
✳ Higher Vibration
✳ Imogen Heap – Hide & Seek (Remix)
✳ I Want to Be Free (Muse)
✳ I will be here. (Tiesto)
✳ Pendulum, Watercolour
✳ Ríe Chinito by Perota Chingo
✳ Save the World, Dogs
✳ The Shanghai Restoration Project
✳ Seba
✳ Sun Kil Moon, Heron Blue
✳ There is no time.
✳ This Place Is a Prison – The Postal Service
✳ Vision One
✳ Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons, Electric Guitars
✳ Walkin’ on the Moon – Kris Menace Feat. Emil
✳ What Else Is There?

ART & POETRY OF OTHERS

✳ Activist Hypocrisy – 4 Poems
✳ Art & Music
✳ Beautiful Linux
✳ Bunny Pwnd
✳ Dead Pixels in the Sky
✳ Eyjafjallajökull
✳ Tiny Hippo

OTHER MISCELLANY

✳ 10 Countries in Which to Thrive
✳ The Absurd Thrives
✳ American Apparel B-boys
✳ Awesome Saturn Commercial
✳ Chinese Hell Bank Notes
✳ Everything is OK: The Love Police
✳ For the purists (XKCD)
✳ A Glorious Dawn
✳ High Intensity Training
✳ How to Make ‘Work-Life Balance’ Work
✳ Iceberg Gets Pumped
✳ Ichigo confronts his Zampakuto
✳ John Cleese on Extremism
✳ Long Cycles and the Possibility of a Third World War Coming Soon (ENG/ESP)
✳ Love this video… (running on water!)
✳ The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, by Ibn Khaldun
✳ Open Possibility
✳ Occupy Wall St. – Commercial
✳ Peace Be Unto Her
✳ Quantum Locking! (Levitation)
✳ Reach Exceeds Grasp
✳ Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters
✳ Russel Brand on Newsnight
✳ The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher
✳ Shenzhen, Maybe Five Kilos
✳ StumbleFail
✳ System Failure
✳ Tardigrades
✳ Teacher Self-Check (You Ok?)
✳ Thank you, VirusComix.
✳ Thrivenotes List of Travel Snacks
✳ Top 25 Countries: Human Development Index
✳ The TPP & the Loss of National Sovereignty
✳ U a Fan of Memetics?
✳ Vakıflı, Turkey
✳ Wired Review: Vibram 5 Fingers
✳ XKCD power-up!
✳ XKCD Radiation Chart