by Ray Rawles: A summary of Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator’s Handbook… This book includes a thorough set of teachings for developing and deepening meditation. Ajahn Brahm was born Peter Betts in London, 1951, Abbot of monastery in Australia. In this book he describes four initial stages of meditation, plus two more and the…
by Ignat: Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilisation… And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp focus on finding the best way to produce oxygen on the Moon. In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a…
Donna Quesada: It might be something as simple as stopping in the middle of a conversation that feels a little bit tense. And asking yourself, am I choosing from love? Am I speaking from love? Gary Zukav: Precisely. Yes, that’s it. Exactly, it’s stopping whatever you’re doing in the moment if you’re not aware and…
The summer solstice is my Super Bowl. I was born in the summer, and my name literally means ‘The Sun.’ When the weather gets warmer, I defrost. I relish al fresco dining, summer outfits, and the smell of coconuts and vanilla (my signature summer scents). As a Black woman, I grew up inundated with beauty…
Adam Froman is the founder and CEO of Delvinia. Canadian tech founders know when they have valuable intellectual property (IP), but few know what to do with it. That gap is costing our economy more than we realize. It’s not just in individual exits, though those are painful enough, but in the systematic erosion of…
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, is talked up as a presidential hopeful from the ranks of the struggling Democratic Party. She is described as ‘progressive, left-wing and left-wing populist’ and she certainly has the chart of an activist. Born 13 October 1989 11.50am New York, she has an assertive and ambitious 10th house Mars…
There’s a particular kind of afternoon that I want to bottle up and remember forever. The kind where nobody is looking at their phones, the wine glasses keep getting refilled, and somehow two hours pass, and no one has moved from the table. That’s how I remember the day that Camilla Marcus joined a group…
The average person will probably go their whole life without uttering the words “payroll” and “super cool” in the same sentence, but that’s why Simon Bourgeois is a self-proclaimed payroll nerd. “I know it’s hard to [make payroll] seem cool, but man, I think what we’re doing right now is super cool.” Bourgeois is the…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM With Mother’s Day just behind us, conversations about everything that mothers give are top of mind. However, the biology of pregnancy has something more to say: the exchange runs in both directions, and some of it lasts a lifetime. There is a phenomenon in pregnancy that sounds more like…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In many cities, entering a park is a deliberate act. You adjust your route, find a gate, and cross from public pavement into a space that operates by its own rules, even if those rules are minimal. Hanoi is dismantling that dynamic. Across four major parks, including Cầu Giấy,…
