February 2009

This marimba could be yours

by Doug LeMoine on 20 February 2009

If you haven’t been to San Juan Bautista, you need to go. It’s a little ways south of San Jose, an hour east of Big Sur, a long but not impossible trip from San Francisco. Mara and I were there last winter, and I keep meaning to spread the word. It’s a real getaway with [...]

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Twitter dream team, beginnings of

by Doug LeMoine on 13 February 2009

I couldn’t agree more with David Pogue, Twitter is what you make of it. This is what I would make of it, if only.

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Flow states and flow triggers

by Doug LeMoine on 13 February 2009

Last night, Lynne told a story about a friend who, upon seeing movie star James Franco in the New York subway, experienced a feeling of ecstatic clarity, of time slowing down. I don’t recall if Mihály Csíkszentmihályi covers celebrity sightings in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, but this sounds like a state of flow [...]

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