Benji

Years ago a friend drunkenly said, "the valley is filled with a bunch of guys building companies to replace their moms." And I never forgot that. If you're confused by that statement, might I suggest the classic pitch analogy of "Uber for X". The constant barrage of laundry pickup services, food delivery, snack delivery, taking a typical chore and... See more

The image that stayed with me from Welwood’s work is being a big tent at a festival. The life inside it is the life inside us always at play, but we’re also the container that protects that life from the elements with wide open sides that enable an ongoing interplay with the world. We’re tied to the earth, but constantly expanding in all... See more

We start out knowing nothing on the left, learn a lot from books and move to the middle, and then learn enough from experience, if we’re lucky, to end up on the right.

From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.

I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist... See more

Yeah, it matters a lot. And this goes back to the original promise of computers was to let people create the ideal environment for themselves to do their best work I think there some great thinking from pioneers like Doug Engelbart who is known in a shallow way for inventing the mouse but in a deeper way, he actually kind of invented the idea of... See more