Have you ever thought of a question like why you are who you are? Aside from the fundamental questions like "where we came from, why we are here, and where we will go," "why there is anyone at all rather than nothing," it is also a type of question we can never stop asking. At … Continue reading The Grand Stories
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Lock-in Efforts
Engineers and programmers prefer the plain text format as it is ubiquitous and universal. In the past decades, as digital services become commodities, we have faced a variety of choices. The reality is too much to choose one with fear of compatibility and sustainability. Once upon a time, I saved my digital documents on a … Continue reading Lock-in Efforts
A Bowl of Milk Rice
Life consists of a series of problems, also known as a series of stressors. Learning to manage stress is critical as long as we are here on earth. We have various techniques and approaches for such stress management. One of the well-known practices is meditation. Thinking of meditation practice, we imagine a figure like a … Continue reading A Bowl of Milk Rice
Life Everlasting
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu It is one of the lessons on the principle of letting go. So often, we experience that things don't go and work as we planned. We should be flexible enough like water to handle anything that happens … Continue reading Life Everlasting
On Knowledge and Wisdom
One of the essential activities for us humans should be knowledge management. In one way or another, we have to manage various types of knowledge in our everyday lives. If so, what is knowledge in the first place? How should we define it? How is it different from other realms like data, information, and wisdom? … Continue reading On Knowledge and Wisdom
Love Your Fate
What did you want to become when you were a child? What was your answer then? Did you want to become a soccer player, pilot, or astronaut? Or did you wish to become an artist, scientist, or explorer? Children innocently and yet boldly express their dreams based on their naive experiences. As we age, our … Continue reading Love Your Fate
The Prison of the Mind
When you feel life is restless, what would you do? Can you calm it down? How can you control the state of life? Is your life happy or unhappy? How do we define the state of life? Who can decide it on earth? Sometimes we feel joy. At other times, we find it is hard. … Continue reading The Prison of the Mind
