Wanna change the world? A good way to start would be to change yourself to the better first. There are a couple of great links on Digg.com right now that make a very nice pair to what I linked to before on this blog. To get to the point, here are the excellent general steps to making yourself and your life better and then as such helping make the world a better place - something a lot of people may, without perhaps realizing so yet, be aspiring to.
- 1. (Re)discover who you are and what do you love to do: 1, 2
- 2. Simplify your life (become more efficient, clutter-free, crisp and clear in mind): The Four Laws of Simplicity
- 3. Help change the world: 20 ways to change the world
When faced with many wrongs in the world people sometimes say “what can I do” assuming the answer to be close to “nothing”. It may be liberating to learn that by just striving to improve yourself and your own life in a real way (not just things like “having more money”) you’re refitting yourself into a potential world-changer. Once your life is in order and you are happy with it, helping change a world is just a matter of deciding to do so - execution wont be too hard.
That said, who am I to give advice? Well I’m not.. I’m just picking up what others have said and connected the dots.. which are quite easy to connect. I convert it into a suggestion because it makes a lot of sense to me and I believe it may help others too. As you may have seen I am impulsive and sometimes probably too emotional, making some of my blog posts and attitudes often, although temporarily, negative. But.. I’m in a process. Nothing is fluid. All this can change to the better.
All things can be better, no matter how bad they may seem or be today.
January 8th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
How about removing some clutter from libervis network? Maybe it’s time to sell mobiliberty? I see lots of articles that would fit on it every week, but it seems I just can’t make myself care enough to do anything with those… and it looks like you might have the same problem. Also, neither of us is rich enough to test all those gadgets and write reviews.
January 8th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Yeah, OpenMoko is finally getting some steam, but pity we lost the initial enthusiasm. I’m still hoping to buy it when FreeRunner, the mainstream version, comes out in March and only then might I be tempted to really write about it - but that’s one review and one review wont exactly save mobiliberty.
I am actually planning on selling it so.. that’ll probably be done. And another thing on the todo list since recently is general re-evaluation of all of projects I’m involved with, most of which from LN, to see which existing ones to keep, which new ones are worth starting and which outside ones (the alliances building sort of projects) to be involved with.
So there may be some clutter cuts.
Mobiliberty probably wont sell for much.. it’s only PR4 (which matters less nowadays), relatively low traffic and a not a very sexy domain name. But it has some content, the current design etc.. could be made into something.
If selling it fails we’ll just redirect or come up with something else to do with it..