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What Is Essential?

process over goal enhanced through time but self sufficient to the moment and can always be realized now expansive experience, not description requires a degree of mindfulness a condition of freedom in this are clusters of words birds flitting on thermal currents of intersections centeredlightness of being stillness letting go sovereignty relaxation words about state about places roads between destinations time slows on the interstates does not matterneed not be in external pursuits, holding a quality of internal state more than the thing or happening the space it happens within mindful  cultivation of state less derailed by circumstance recenters more quickly still need daily reminders though not to mistake means for ends

12 Projects

I decided to write some mobile applications. And publish them (to introduce a certain rigor.) I plan to write 12. An arbitrary number, but one that feels right, para aprender, in order to learn. I chose to use Corona, so I could jump right in and start making stuff. I like the idea of just a canvas, a set of apis and a minimalist language (Lua, which is awesome.) It has limitations, but it also has a pretty wide swathe of a sweet spot; of things it can do well, cross platform, and these things involve interesting conceptual spaces: graphics, ai, game mechanics, physics engines, particle systems. I couldn't write a very decent business app with it, but I can work some other mojo. That’s the hypothesis. The 12 apps are both the curriculum and metrics of progress. I finished the first app this week and rolled it out to both google/android and apple play stores (an education in its own right.) It may never get more than a dozen downloads and dire reviews but I that wasn’t the p