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Life

How to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds

by The Crazy Colombian on March 9, 2009

in How to, Life

Learn how to prop­erly fold a t-shirt in close to no time!

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Since 1984, Richard Saul Wur­man has cre­ated extra­or­di­nary gath­er­ings about learn­ing and under­stand­ing. Enter­tain­ment Gath­er­ing is a rich exten­sion of these ideas — a con­fer­ence that explores the atti­tude of under­stand­ing in music, film, tele­vi­sion, radio, tech­nol­ogy, adver­tis­ing, gam­ing, inter­ac­tiv­ity and the web. This video cap­tures the pre­sen­ta­tion from Tim Fer­ris, best-selling author of The […]

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Zen Poetry: Play

by The Crazy Colombian on February 16, 2009

in Life, Poem

A beau­ti­ful poem that explores the nature of play

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Image: Spili Crete cour­tesy of Wolf­gang Staudt
From the moment we are born, expe­ri­ence starts shap­ing our real­ity. Every sec­ond that goes by cre­ates an expe­ri­ence, and every expe­ri­ence becomes part of the fil­ters through which we per­ceive the world around us. If we hap­pened to wear red glasses from the day we were born, we […]

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Peaceful Simplicity: How to Live a Life of Contentment

by The Crazy Colombian on January 19, 2009

in How to, Life

Editor’s note: Today’s post comes to you cour­tesy of Leo Babauta, author of the famous blog Zen Habits. I hope you enjoy it!

Image: Clock– Sim­plic­ity vs. Com­plex­ity cour­tesy of Aaron Geller
This fan­tas­tic quote sum­ma­rizes some­thing that I’ve been try­ing to focus on recently in my daily life:
“What­ever the tasks, do them slowly
with ease,
in mind­ful­ness,
so not do […]

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Goodbye, 2008

by The Crazy Colombian on January 5, 2009

in Life, Reflection

A sum­mary of 2008’s most notable moments using incred­i­ble pho­tos sourced from flickr

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Queda Prohibido — A poem by Pablo Neruda

by The Crazy Colombian on December 29, 2008

in Life, Poem

A loose trans­la­tion of Pablo Neruda’s beau­ti­ful poem

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Zen Poetry: Unusual times

by The Crazy Colombian on December 16, 2008

in Life, Poem

An unusual poem for unusual times

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How to avoid being a Tolerance zealot

by The Crazy Colombian on December 8, 2008

in Life, Reflection

A reflec­tion on the nature of tol­er­ance in mod­ern society

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An emotional palette

by The Crazy Colombian on December 1, 2008

in Life, Reflection

A reflec­tion on the nature of emotions.

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