Gary Teh

courtesy to Neil’s recommendation I had the opportunity to read this book

Summary of book:

• grow personal power by taking responsibility – always frame problems into actionable items
• power is defined as the ability to focus attention and effectively responding to the demands of the situation
• focus on reality and the now
• describe things objectively
• become aware of what is now made newly possible by the shift of the current situation
• Be aware of energy sinks. Do not divert energy into them
  • wishful thinking
  • projecting into future
  • shifting blame
  • shirking responsibility
  • protecting the image of self (Ego) by attempting to consistent

Over the past 3 years, my brother has grown into the domain for the Internet of Things. These are the high level landscape I have learned from him during our discussion:

Areas:

1. Cloud storage
2. Sensors
3. Business Intelligence and Analytics
4. Backbone: protocol and communication with sensors
5. Security: Oct/Nov 2016 DDOS attack was done by IOT devices

Domain under the Smart city initiative:

1. Living
2. Transport
3. Healthcare – passive monitoring of health status out of the hospital

Trend:

1. Smart city will continue for the next 30 years
2. The current wave is by first world country
3. The next wave is by third world country

Analytics:

1. Business intelligence – establishing and making visible what current is
2. Data Analytics – identifying priorly unknown correlations
3. Data Science – predicting what is N+1

today’s session was held by Rev Dr Masaki Matsubara at the San Francisco Zen Center

The most important take aways from today’s session are firstly, every moment and every activity can be considered meditation. Eating, sleeping, walking, talking and looking are all considered meditation

Secondly, the most important inner activity we can do is to set the cup down. This allows the inner contents to settle so that we can see clearly what they are as well as new things which we have never before noticed

It occurred to me this priorly held belief that to make fast progress, we should make haste.

just for a change, I have decided to give up on the fallacious notion of meeting a deadline and instead focus fully on giving full attention to each and every minute detail.

I am curious what trouble it will land me up in which I will need to negotiate my way out of

after coming to the conclusion, the hair with the current state it has grew into has became unmanageable and the weight too much strain on the follicles themselves, i went ahead and had it chopped off

the person that walked into the salon and the person that walked out is fundamentally the same except maybe USD150 poorer.

The hairdresser and the staff just kept on using the term a new person instead of a modified hair style. I consciously corrected them as they made the errorneous statement

Ilya and I were lucky enough to receive and invitation by Caroline to go sailing with her husband Nicola and his friends Oscar and Frank today on their 40 boat

we left Alameda and motored towards the Golden Gate bridge. The morning fog lifted from around as sun rose above head

the Boat had auto pilot and a really cozy cabin with 3 rooms and a head

the swells were 12 feet high past the golden gate.

realized the importance of turning the stern of the boat towards the incoming swell to ensure it does not get tipped sideways

on the way in, we brought out the Jenniaker, an asymmetrical Spinnaker. It could be past off as a geonna and a spinnaker.

Jibing was very challenging, with 70% of the time messing up the Jenniker

learned the importance of having a single captain on the boat to prevent conflicting orders

Learned the importance of not going up wind with a spinnaker or a jenniker

When sailing past bridges it was important to always cross pillars upwind with lots to avoid accidental jibing as would otherwise if sailing close downwind of pillar

heading into golden gate, currents are strong. Most sail boats were stuck outside waiting for current to flood.

Current was weird on Sausalito side of channel on the inside of the bridge, with whirlpools and constantly changing wind direction. San Francisco side of channel was better. Conditions were normal on the outside of the Golden Gate Bridge and became awkward on the inside of the Golden Gate Bridge

in Europe, leisure boat always gave way to workinb boats.

 

He presented his content along the following sequence

1. Politics – mainly Donald Trump
2. Love life – difference between men in 20s versus men in 40s
3. Communication between men and women
4. His professional life – the commute he had to do
5. His parents – their relationship with Chinese. His mum was Filipino and dad was Jewish
6. ended on zen mindfulness and how you are the universe’s way of manifesting consciousness, that you should not see yourself as separate from the rest of universe and the importance of the Eternal now

today I had the opportunity to observe my body’s physiological response when being on the receiving end of extremely angry screams and cries from an angry person.

the ear was ringing and the chest got tense while I was observing it all. Liberation came when I realize these were just bodily sensations. I as a living being could choose with total freedom my response.

suddenly I recollect some childhood experience and gain insight into my aversion towards causing anger in people during my interactions and thus bending backwards.

Whenever playmates go into bout of tears and I happened to be within the same immediate convict of the situations one of the adults would come along and give us all a beating. The whopping would come first before the adults attempt at clarification.

this association between anger, crying and experienced physical pain was left as a sub imprint in the mind that was never fully addressed until today.

Now that this association has been clearly surfaced, I could conclude the adults back then were operating out of ignorance and should be forgiven, it is perfectly safe to be in a situation interacting with a angry screaming person, it is perfectly ok to simply observe his/her pain and anger

lately through practice of meditation and active listening, conversations have became less effortful and more conducive.

I realize the lack of need to strive, the absence of strain and tension during collaborations.

It becomes easier to find opportunities to show appreciation for people you work with. It becomes easier to allow others the opportunity to contribute their efforts towards endeavors you find important.

Feelings of boredom on closer inspection was actually back and neck muscle aches in disguise.

When in noisy parties avoiding any form of serious conversation helps improve overall level of joy

walking around in crowded places is not enjoyable. Half the time is spent avoiding body collision.

Less thinking and more sensing is also really good. Sense the rhythm of the music. Sense where the body wants to move. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose just enjoy the flow. Forget the self.