Student of Life
Originally posted on the Sandbox Blog
This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October – 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag [...]
Most people only ask the “what” questions. What are you doing lately? What’s up? What did you do yesterday? What are you going to do this summer? What are you studying? It takes a rare breed of person to ask the “why” and “how” questions.
The “why” and “how” questions are much more interesting and elevated. [...]
Here is a provocative passage from Authentic Happiness, a book I recently finished and hope to blog more about.
Another barrier to raise a new level of happiness is the “hedonic treadmill” which causes you to rapidly and inevitably adapt to good things by taking them for granted. As you accumulate more material possessions and accomplishments, [...]
I ran across some photos of a pressfit die I made a few years ago on a laser cutter.
I quickly put a page up of the pressfit die and some other things I’ve made the past few years.
http://maxmarmer.com/making-physical-things/
Here’s a short story I wrote up a few months ago. I was experimenting with ideas of randomness, networking and success in life in the form of a short story. I could have done a lot more with it and I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve it. This is my first [...]
I want to increase my output on this site. I’m thinking about doing another kind of post to support this end. It takes me a long time to formulate comprehensive thoughts and theories. But I’m thinking it might be interesting to blog some of my more intermediate musings. This medium is after all about opening up a [...]
It recently came to my attention that I didn’t have an RSS feed. Oops! Now I do. Click the link in the top right hand corner to subscribe.
These pictures are from a school project that I was involved with last year. We made solar lanterns and gave them to villagers in Senegal and Ethiopia who didn’t have electricity.
Bear with me, while I change the site around and try to find a design and style that suits me.
It’s time I finally make the jump. I’ve been debating for awhile whether I should start a blog.
I had some concerns about whether it would be a good investment of my time. But the last 6 months life has taken me along a path scattered with signs that clearly indicate starting a blog would be [...]
