Super super busy day… I had several phone meetings… The most fun was with my new friend Anna .. She’s working on an article for Forbes magazine about remote collaboration…Before she called… I noticed her last name was Esaki-Smith. As soon as we got on the phone I asked her if she was any relation to the famous physicist Leo Esaki . She started laughing… That is her dad… He still living and working in Japan at age 96.
Esaki Is the most famous IBM ever … By my estimation. He was an IBM fellow and he won the Nobel prize For physics in 1973. He discovered the property of electron tunneling in solids . tunneling diodes are still also called ‘Esaki diodes , after him.
He retired back in 1992 but I remember meeting him at a function… I was pretty excited to meet him
I just read in Wikipedia that he had these 5 “don’t rules”
Don’t allow yourself to be trapped by your past experiences.
Don’t allow yourself to become overly attached to any one authority in your field – the great professor, perhaps.
Don’t hold on to what you don’t need.
Don’t avoid confrontation.
Don’t forget your spirit of childhood curiosity
I really enjoyed my conversation with Ana… And really liked your line of thinking about Zoom fatigue. She writes about education and technology… She’s a good person to know
Last month diane participated in a one moth meditation challenge from Todd Norman.. a teacher who used to teach out of Kirpalu . I sat in on a couple and really liked them. .. we’re now going back and listening to all 30 of the sessions . He’s a great teacher .. and it’s so relaxing to meditate
Just after dark here . We’ve been lying in the slings in the yoga space while we listen . I’m generally unconscious about 30 seconds after the lesson starts .. but I’m close enough to consciousness that I can still listen . Today the lesson was about having a strong back .. a soft front and a wild heart . The strong back I get .. wasn’t sure about the soft front part but i really latched in to the wild heart part . The lesson was .. th the extent i heard it in my yogic sleep.. was that tour heart has to welcome change and chaos .. especially now
which really resonated with me .. we’re all gonna need a wild heart to get us through these next couple of months
Super quiet day around here… ‘Diane and I got out for a great hike around Libby’s lookout… They were surprising number of people out there… Which meant masks most of the way. I felt good to get out
Spent the day with projects around the house… Mostly still getting ready for winter. We got the interior windows up yesterday… Today I worked on doors. A couple of days ago I put in a latch on our pantry I’ve been missing for decades
And I redid the bolt and latch on our front door… Which is probably been in bad shape for at least four decades.
Somehow working on doors seemed meaningful as we all shut ourselves inside for safety and wait for spring
Kind of a low-key day… Feeling kind of down. Mostly worked around the house… A big accomplishment was getting the storm windows on inside upstairs… Went quick with three people. We Got a short hike in to Duxbury window which was good :
One fun thing today was that one of our first robotics teams give a class in programming that went really well. If you missed it we recorded it so you can watch it later. Very appreciative of the team from East Montpelier they put it together
This evening we drove to Waterbury to see if he “parade of lights”… See 11th annual event and of course this one was different because of the pandemic.. Normally there would be hundreds of people out carrying lanterns in a parade… This time the lanterns were fixed and you got to drive through. It was definitely good hearted. They were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lanterns. We went because we wanted to see her friend John’s piece that I had to help Ton. We got there pretty late but we were able to see it
