Category Archives: Essay
Social consciousness, software, and our future society
Note: a newer version is available. Note: Based on my review of 2008 posts, I added more posts, and some introduction for the parts and chapters. I am thinking of publishing this as a book. I haven’t thought a good … Continue reading
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The revolution in America
In America, a revolution is happening now. Actually it is better to be called Evolution. It is not very much recognized by the public so far since it is has been going mostly peacefully. The impact of this evolution to … Continue reading
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Computer Science is Life Science
Computer Science (CS) is not a science of computers. CS is a science of life. It is a bridge to connect the physical science with human science. Here I take the word life as what is meant by C.A. (Christopher … Continue reading
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How to take back our democracy Part 2: Democracy, Money, Social Products, Local Services, the Power of Consciousness
This is to follow up with the part 1 The power of politics is the power to make laws to govern. The law should be minimum. Otherwise it becomes a tool to restrict people’s freedom instead of facilitating it. So … Continue reading
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Play
Play When the world is still, the whole world is just one. When it starts moving, forces are applied to its body and split out many small parts. Under the forces, the small part has to make itself stronger correspondingly … Continue reading
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Peace: What is peace? How do we build peace in our world?
We human beings, like everything else, are just like simple objects, which have both inside and outside. Deep inside of us is an inner core. On our outside, we have an outer layer that is in touch with the outside … Continue reading
Build a better playground
Where are we going? How do we understand human history? How do we understand our current trend, especially changes brought out by software and web? There are a lot of economic theories. There are a lot of ideologies, religions based … Continue reading
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Life is colorful (English)
Note: The original Chinese version is here. I am not satisfied with the English version at all. I cannot feel well with English. The original Chinese version is very beautiful, and I am quite satisfied with it. Life is colorful! … Continue reading
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the Python Principle is the Principle of Playing
The Python Principle is a principle of playing. Python makes it easy to play with programming. Recently when I was refactoring my software project, I realized I want to make it easy to play, the same as Python did. So … Continue reading
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Reflection on My Schooling
Note: this is a paragraph I just added to my article: the Art of My Life. (http://freestone.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/the-art-of-my-life/). I think it might be good to separate it out as a single article as well. As I reflect on my schooling experience, … Continue reading
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What is Self and Introduction to Buddhism
What is self? According to Buddhism, the universe shares the same substance. This substance is emptiness, or we can call Zero. We human being is part of the universe. So we are also composed of emptiness or Zero. By looking … Continue reading
The Art of My Life
I am going to talk about the art of my life and how I came to it. It is going to be a long article since it spans my whole life. I cut many things off, but it is still … Continue reading
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Science, mystical power and Buddhism
Inspired by a Buddhism meditation and discussion There is no conflicts between science and Buddhism. Buddha’s analytical thinking ability is amazing. Given him enough time, he can figure out how to build a rocket. He will also know how to … Continue reading
Comments on Whither the World
http://libcom.org/library/whither-the-world I like this article. I agree with his view on capitalism and most of his analysis. I agree with him that capitalism is a historical advancement. A lot of things in capitalism can be justified. The real change in … Continue reading
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Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 … Continue reading
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Creativity, Business and Buddhism
During my first day of meeting with my teacher, I brought three things to him: a stone, a pine tree branch and an acorn. I asked him that of these three things what are the same, what are different and … Continue reading
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Some minor disagreement with Mr. Gatto
Mr. Gatto’s books are indeed very profound. I learned tremendously from his books. Here is just some minor disagreement I have with him. Some of them, if not corrected, can be very misleading. Since I recommend everyone to read Mr. … Continue reading
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Against Compulsory Schooling: from mass production to empowering individual professionals
Modern compulsory schooling is a product of mass production. It is to produce laborers for the mass production. When people learned to unleashing the power from the coal and later oil, we entered a new era of human history, the … Continue reading
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Tech Activism — For IDProject friends
If you come from IDProject to this blog, this article is written for you. As for myself, I feel very lucky to have the chance to be exposed to the teaching of Buddhism. Having gone through training in the monastery, … Continue reading
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
Thinking after reading Dumbing us down. No one can do a good job on education without reading Mr. Gatto’s books. Reading his book, you will have a feeling that education is the root of nearly all problems of our society. … Continue reading
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