I signed up for a four-class cake decorating course. I did not sign up for a lesson in psychological projection. I got one anyway. The Setup Even though I grew up here in the South Bay, I never knew much about this small strip of shops in Campbell, CA off of Bascom Ave between Camden […]

Money Parts 1 and 2 stayed close to a single passage in Zen and Creative Management — Albert Low’s account of money on pages 86–87. This last piece pulls from a different chapter, “A Question of Ownership,” where Low describes something he calls the Shareholder–Employee–Market triad: every company, he argues, exists in relationship to three

In Part 1, we looked at what Albert Low says about money in Zen and Creative Management — specifically, his claim that people “seek a short cut to self-realization through money.” Low was writing about corporate budgets in 1976. But the shortcut he’s describing isn’t really about corporations. It’s about a substitution: reaching for money

I often have conversations with people about the problem of wealth inequality — the enormous income gap that exists here in Silicon Valley and worldwide. My own views on money have shifted a lot over the years. In high school, it was trickle-down economics and fears of inflation. At UCLA, I studied economics formally but

I’m okay. Blue, empty, vast skies. Vastness inside myself. Yes, the inner child, the inner teacher, but an emptiness “holding” everything. It’s untouchable. The sky is so vast amongst the giants balls of mass. But, they dwarf in the darkness. The Sky holds like water surrounds. Falling into the sky – it’s immenseness. Endless –