Captcha

On my coffee shop table this morning, the reflection from the Dell logo on my computer...
Looking for all the world like a Captcha to make sure you are not some sort of web bot....

Maybe this one is to make sure that the whole lot is real?

Procrastination....

Ok... still not putting in anywhere near enough work on this talk I am doing on Monday...

Trying to work out..

Am I putting it off cause I am incapable of sustained concentration on ANYTHING now?
or
because I have never let myself down when doing a presentation of any sort... so I am just assuming I will wing it and it will work.

I hope it is the second one, cause otherwise this is going to get embarrassing!

So am I.

Heaven can you hear me? I'm calling from a land line 
I need a good connection I feel like I'm losing my mind 
The day is just about to break; I think it's safe to say, so am I.


(Eve 6)

Goes away

Last night, I was walking to have some dinner with 2 business colleagues...
there was some sort of sign up on one of the shops, in a language I did not understand... but it inspired a whole set of thoughts.
The thoughts did not get to the point of being words, but I had developed a whole set of ideas in a few seconds.  I thought they were definitely good.  I figured I would write about it all here.  It would not change the world, but might be the smallest bit of insight someone else could learn from.

We walked to have dinner.  And it was good.

And the revelation I had experienced just disappeared into the night...

Self Delusion 1.

It seems to me that most people go through life thinking of how without this constraint, or this choice, they could be doing completely different things with their life.

I am capable of so much, but I am choosing to hide it because of

• reason 1
• reason 2
•  
•  
• reason 127,241.

Increasingly I think that people are what they do... and only what they do.

There are parts of the brain, whose primary role is to stop you from doing things...and that is good - when this part of the brain works well, you have a successful person, if it works badly the person is an impulsive "now-junky" who will almost certainly end up in jail.

So if who we are, and how we are seen by society is determined by what we don't do, then pretending that we are so much deeper, or more complicated or more capable that what we show is pure self delusion.

Hello world

As a first blog post, this must traditionally say something about being a first blog post... which it does.

This is a "secret" place where I will put thought experiments, and questions...
None of this is any more than allowing my mind to play with ideas or wander along its own path.
In it I will be other people, I will try to think from other view points, I will be writing as though a character.

I am sure there will be bits in it that I actually believe... but which ones I believe are as a secret!

(,,,, oh yeah, and I nearly forgot...  I think there will be a lot more rambling text and stuff rather than just photos...)