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Busy-ness Disease

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You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour -Zen Proverb https://onbeing.org/blog/the-disease-of-being-busy

The most dangerous phrase in the language...?

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In the internet age, we love to use memes with quotes. But the quote is only as good as the truth contained within it and the authority/knowledge/wisdom of the person being quoted. So who is "Rear Admiral Grace Hopper". Here's some highlights of her resume/life/qualifications: 1. Born in 1906 (14 years before women were allowed to vote in the US) 2. Earned a PhD in math at Yale and taught at Vassar 3. Is often credited with creating the term 'computer bug' because literally, one of the punch cards in her computer stack failed due to a 'bug' that had died on the card, causing a misread. 4. Was one of the original creators of the COBOL language 5. Became the first female Admiral in the US Navy. This person, driven by logic, math and computer programming, working in one of the most structured and mission critical organizations in the world, the US Navy, said that doing the same things we have always done just because we have always done it that wa