This "will we survive" question really grabs us and gets our attention. But its the wrong question. The better question is "What IF we survive? Then what?" So what if we survive? Will we continue to muddle along killing each other, indulging our greed and selfishness, abusing our planet, living in fear both of real and imagined threats, and generally wasting our lives unable to fully appreciate the joy of living because we're so self-absorbed?
Clearly we should take action to prevent the abortion of the human experiment, but that isnt really the point of being alive. To be truly alive isn't to be wrapped up in concerns about future survival, its to take good care of what we have here-and-now: if we do that, the future takes care of itself.
I tried to cancel an Earthlink account once. It took over 6 months, including many e-mails, postal mails, phone calls, etc. I finally got someone on the line and threatened to drive up to their offices in Pasadena, find him and his supervisor, and "have a very unpleasant, in-your-face encounter with both of you" if they failed to close my account.
That worked. Of course, it was years ago, and I imagine they've improved their responsiveness by now. (Or maybe not...)
In my life, Zen practice figures prominently. Zen is largely about learning to pay attention to here-and-now, so that we're living our actual life (one moment at a time) rather than being buffetted about as we chase one thought after another, or one craving after the next, or being constantly pulled in different directions by all the demands of our lives.
From that perspective, this issue is very serious: to go to the grave without having learned to actually be satisfied with the simple day-to-day routines of living is to die without really having lived. Normally we think of being "fully alive" as somehow being able to pack in as much of the things we like into each day, but that isn't it at all. Being fully alive means being fully engaged with whatever ordinary content life serves up at each moment.
When we try to multitask beyond what is really needed at the moment, we're not only depriving others of our availability, we're depriving ourselves of the opportunity to be truly alive in this moment (which is, ultimately, the only time we can actually live, no?)
I suppose. In theory Sharepoint can be used in a cross-browser manner, but I've found its not unusual for MS-centric shops to build apps which don't work with other browsers. In any case, there's no "sharepoint client" as a separate product.
The "free client" for Sharepoint is your web browser. That is, if your browser is IE. Otherwise, there is some chance you'll be able to access Sharepoint documents, but you may have browser compatibility problems.
One idea that doesn't get much traction in this sort of discussion is the nature of "boring work". After a few years of Zen practice, its become clear to me that what I think is "boring" varies greatly with my own state of mind. Mostly we go through life distracted and chasing after ideas we have become preoccupied with -- things we think are "interesting". What we fail to notice in this constant search for stimulation is that we're rarely actually present in life. In effect, our quest for interesting activities keeps us sufficiently distracted so we don't notice things which are pretty fundamental, e.g. a basic dissatisfaction with just being here and now at each moment, doing whatever we're doing with our full attention. "Boring" work is actually quite satisfying if one does it wholeheartedly and uses it as a part of practicing to stay fully engaged with life just as it is.
Our striving to escape boredom (which we transmit to our kids) just perpetuates our own inability to learn how to live fully each day.
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This "will we survive" question really grabs us and gets our attention. But its the wrong question. The better question is "What IF we survive? Then what?" So what if we survive? Will we continue to muddle along killing each other, indulging our greed and selfishness, abusing our planet, living in fear both of real and imagined threats, and generally wasting our lives unable to fully appreciate the joy of living because we're so self-absorbed? Clearly we should take action to prevent the abortion of the human experiment, but that isnt really the point of being alive. To be truly alive isn't to be wrapped up in concerns about future survival, its to take good care of what we have here-and-now: if we do that, the future takes care of itself.
I tried to cancel an Earthlink account once. It took over 6 months, including many e-mails, postal mails, phone calls, etc. I finally got someone on the line and threatened to drive up to their offices in Pasadena, find him and his supervisor, and "have a very unpleasant, in-your-face encounter with both of you" if they failed to close my account. That worked. Of course, it was years ago, and I imagine they've improved their responsiveness by now. (Or maybe not...)
In my life, Zen practice figures prominently. Zen is largely about learning to pay attention to here-and-now, so that we're living our actual life (one moment at a time) rather than being buffetted about as we chase one thought after another, or one craving after the next, or being constantly pulled in different directions by all the demands of our lives.
From that perspective, this issue is very serious: to go to the grave without having learned to actually be satisfied with the simple day-to-day routines of living is to die without really having lived. Normally we think of being "fully alive" as somehow being able to pack in as much of the things we like into each day, but that isn't it at all. Being fully alive means being fully engaged with whatever ordinary content life serves up at each moment.
When we try to multitask beyond what is really needed at the moment, we're not only depriving others of our availability, we're depriving ourselves of the opportunity to be truly alive in this moment (which is, ultimately, the only time we can actually live, no?)
I suppose. In theory Sharepoint can be used in a cross-browser manner, but I've found its not unusual for MS-centric shops to build apps which don't work with other browsers. In any case, there's no "sharepoint client" as a separate product.
The "free client" for Sharepoint is your web browser. That is, if your browser is IE. Otherwise, there is some chance you'll be able to access Sharepoint documents, but you may have browser compatibility problems.
One idea that doesn't get much traction in this sort of discussion is the nature of "boring work". After a few years of Zen practice, its become clear to me that what I think is "boring" varies greatly with my own state of mind. Mostly we go through life distracted and chasing after ideas we have become preoccupied with -- things we think are "interesting". What we fail to notice in this constant search for stimulation is that we're rarely actually present in life. In effect, our quest for interesting activities keeps us sufficiently distracted so we don't notice things which are pretty fundamental, e.g. a basic dissatisfaction with just being here and now at each moment, doing whatever we're doing with our full attention. "Boring" work is actually quite satisfying if one does it wholeheartedly and uses it as a part of practicing to stay fully engaged with life just as it is. Our striving to escape boredom (which we transmit to our kids) just perpetuates our own inability to learn how to live fully each day.