@arnoldjean

**The World Is Getting Faster… and Older** The world today is accelerating. Technology, lifestyle, work pace, performance-driven mindsets… everything is moving faster. But here’s…

Hi everyone here, I’m really impressed by traditional _haikus_—I mean the ones that include a seasonal word (_kigo_) and a cutting word (_kireji_). I don’t know Japanese, and the…

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I am obsessed with the Cosmos — or more precisely, with the connection between human beings and the Cosmos. At the same time, I have an empirical relationship to reality, and that…

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I’ve been teaching French online for almost two years now. One of my students from Mexico recently commented on something that struck her in Europe: “I’m impressed by how independe…

You can have money, success, and followers — and still not feel free. Here’s why. We hear a lot about freedom online these days. Especially financial freedom. But I keep wonder…

When your own thoughts become the problem, thinking harder won’t help. Here's what actually worked for me. **The State of Mind Shapes the World We Live In** Yesterday, I wrote ab…

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These days, everyone calls everyone a narcissist, and that should not make us forget that there are some really deranged people out there and some serious suffering. But living da…

I tell myself — and everyone who wants to hear — "I am looking for beauty." The reason I say that is to remind myself of a way of being. I want to keep my eyes open. And when I s…

**The Time of a Walk** As I sit in a café, my neighbor — apparently a foreign businessman — receives a phone call. I’m so close I can’t help but overhear the conversation. He says…

How I Became a "White Collar" I don't come from a family of workers—at least not in the classic sense. Actually, my family reflects quite well how society transitioned from most fa…

Are We Living in a Sci-Fi Prophecy? The other day, I read a post by @arka1 about how movies might be predicting our future. I do believe that. In a broader sense, I believe creato…

I just received a very nice reply from @xrayman to my previous story on anger management. As I was responding, I was reminded of something important: the need to celebrate our vict…

I do yoga and active meditation every day. At the moment, I live in Nice, in the south of France, and I often go to the seaside to do my practice. **A Quiet Morning... Almost** Th…

#### ### ## The all electric <del>impossible</del> challenging future Part 3. Is the electric engine the best solution to stop global warming? I reiterate my liminary warning ag…

## The all electric <del>impossible</del> challenging future ## Part 2. At the end of the 19th century when horses were turning into a power scaling reference, amidst the bubbling …

# The all-electric<strike> impossible</strike> challenging future ## Part 1. Preamble: In some topics, going fast is not a sign of your remarkable intelligence; it is merely a si…

Hello everyone, I am Jean, don’t hesitate to check my profile to know more about me. So why come here to write about environmentalism? My interest for ecology started long befo…