Student of Life
I don’t know about you, but as activity on social media sites has surged the last year, I’ve found a lot more noise in my feeds and as result of my projects getting more serious I’ve had less time to sift. I know I’m missing a lot of interesting things people have to say and [...]
QOTD. Buckminster Fuller, 1970: “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
