The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

• What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes

  Intriguing:
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  One of the most memorable lines in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is Suzuki-roshi’s statement, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” Suzuki didn’t want his senior students to take a seat on the cushion each morning feeling like Zen adepts who had been there and done that. He wanted them to approach meditation with the open-minded curiosity of an amateur trying it for the first time. Apple devices, you might say, are sophisticated tools for evoking, supporting, and sustaining shoshin, beginner’s mind.
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  tags: steve_jobs apple zen steve_silberman neuroscience buddhism

• Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » The Trouble with Amazon

  Forceful critique of Amazon, not as book publisher, but as book retailer. Eg.:
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  Writing has become badly debased when a $4.99 e-book is thought overpriced, but people will line up at six in the morning in front of an Apple store to pay $499 for the skinny tablet to read it on.
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  tags: amazon thad_mcilroy publishing e-books

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