Challenges of the Super Now

Last week in my blog “The Intersection of the Super Now and the Cyborg World” I wrote about how today, because of the mind-boggling advances in digital technology that allow us, and often demand us, to be in communication 24/7, we are in the SUPER NOW, which is the old NOW on steroids.It’s the old

10 Oct, 2013
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The Intersection of the Super Now and the Cyborg World

I believe that we are going into a“SUPERNOW,” which to me feels like the old “NOW” on steroids. The “NOW”is our experience of what’s happening in the present moment from the P.O.V. of our personal experience of what is actually occurring—without any of our evaluations and judgments,without adding our past experiences in order to

3 Oct, 2013
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FILMS THAT, FOR ME, HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME

One of my all-time favorite movies is Defending Your Life by Albert Brooks, which played in movie theaters in 1991. Over the years I’ve probably watched it twenty times, and every time I’m more impressed with it. The plot centers on a guy who is a yuppie—a young, upwardly mobile professional—in his 40s (played by

26 Sep, 2013
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What I Learned in Acting School

When I was 58, I saw my friend Gilbert Segel, a very prominent business manager and a few years older than me, as a featured actor in a prime time TV show. I was impressed and it looked like he was having a great time. I was looking to spice up my life, and seeing

19 Sep, 2013
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Recommending a Book That I Love

Illusions, written by Richard Bach and first published in 1970s after his enormously popular Jonathan Livingston Seagull, is one of my all-time favorite books. I believe its wisdom contains answers to all of life’s problems. In the book, Richard – Bach’s alter-ego protagonist — is a burnt-out writer who chooses to live as

5 Sep, 2013
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