Mindfulness in 2 Minutes

(Reposted from Huffington Post:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chademeng-tan/mindfulness-in-2-minutes_b_474317.html ) Most evenings, before we sleep, my young daughter and I sit in Mindfulness together for two minutes. I like to joke that two minutes is optimal for us...

Funny Short Thoughts

A collection of funny thoughts I’ve had over the past weeks, each too short to be a blog post on its own: Back when I was doing Machine Learning, I spent a lot of my time tuning parameters. Then I suddenly realized, the “training data” was actually...

Random Vacation Notes: Caribbean Dec/2009

I vacationed in the Caribbean and Miami for the first time in Dec 2009.  Here are some random thoughts. Funny Thoughts – In Tortola, I saw for the first time a real chicken crossing a road.  I wondered why. – I set up a webcam at home to keep an eye on our...

Cultivating Compassion: Meditation For Better Relationships

(Reposted from the Huffington Post:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chademeng-tan/cultivating-compassion-me_b_401048.html ) A long time ago, I came across this joke: Once, a disciple asked, “Master, is associating with people half the holy life?” The Master...

Short Funny Thoughts

Here is a collection of funny thoughts I’ve had over the past few weeks, each too short to be a blog post on its own: The meaning of life is not. I knew saving the world would be impossible, but I didn’t think it’d be hard. I have so many things to...