by David Andrew Wiebe | May 11, 2023 | Inspiration
I read Derek Sivers’ post on saying something nice about someone and I made a quick list of people that came to mind:
- Richie Kotzen. Your prolificacy inspires.
- Nuno Bettencourt. I’ve never seen you more candid in interviews. Thank you for being you.
- Kip Winger. There would be less head-banging around here without you.
- James Schramko. Thank you for being the kind of man I can see myself becoming.
- Seth Godin. Without you, there would be no me.
- Dan Kennedy. The principles you teach changed my life.
- Russell Brunson. If I’m ever short on marketing ideas, I turn to your content. You make me believe it’s possible.
- Pat Flynn. You got me excited about passive income and affiliate marketing.
- Tim Ferriss. For helping me see that most communication is not urgent.
- Todd Henry. For the richness and depth, you bring to the world.
- Kevin Trudeau. For leading me to a better feeling space.
- Marie Forleo. I love your interviews.
- Paulo Coelho. For The Alchemist. Wow.
- Fredrick Tamagi. Words cannot express my gratitude to you.
- JonTron. For all the ways you make me laugh.
- Will Smith. For crystallizing the idea that what happened to you isn’t your fault, but it is your responsibility what you do with it.
- Mom. I owe it all to you.
And now it’s your turn!
by David Andrew Wiebe | Jan 24, 2023 | News
In my ongoing efforts to simplify and bring my content under fewer umbrellas, I’m excited to announce the addition of all 29 episodes of The Question Podcast to my blog archives today.
I’m not looking to steal any thunder from The Question website, which will remain online indefinitely. Ostensibly completing in July 2018, the podcast (blast from the not-so-distant past), had a multi-year run, beginning October 2015. It was even available for download on iTunes while it was active.
The community began as a TEDx Talks style grassroots initiative exploring the nature of truth. Our bold community leader, Frederick Tamagi, was the primary presenter at most monthly gatherings, but I also gave a few presentations and was even onsite tech / host of the podcast. We also had performances via local poets and musicians at each gathering.
As I recall, not all presentations were ultimately turned into podcast episodes (I oversaw the initiative in my limited spare time with two helpers), but almost everything was captured and uploaded to The Question YouTube channel.
Next Steps:
It’s times like these I’m grateful for WordPress’ import / export function, because without it, adding just five episodes to the blog would prove a lengthy and tedious process.
So far as boring technical details are concerned, though, I still plan to:
- Add a featured image to each post.
- Add a canonical link to each post.
- Revise the introduction and content for each episode.
- Add a transcription for each episode.
A Complete List of Episodes:
If you’d like to delve into one of the lesser known shows I was a part of, here’s a complete list of episodes for your perusal. You can also find everything under The Question Podcast.
by David Andrew Wiebe | Jul 21, 2017 | The Question Podcast
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The word “symmetry” leads to questions about meaning, like when we encounter words like “democracy” or “love”. The word symmetry basically means “agreement in dimensions, proportions, and arrangement”.
Things that strike us as being symmetrical definitely seem to fit this criteria. We assume that measuring the dimensions, proportions, and the arrangement of something will determine if it’s symmetrical or not.
But in practice, the ancient Greeks viewed the meaning of “symmetria” in an expanded form, beyond mere mathematical measurements.
Fourth century Greek sculptor Polykleitos developed a revolutionary theory about the relationship between the mathematical expression and the dimensions of symmetry, and the dynamic movements of the human body.
His sculptures of young Greek athletes were studies of the interplay of detailing dimension with balance and rhythm. He called this interplay “symmetry”.
The concept of symmetry changed our perspective forever, paved the way for the sublime works of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Rodin, and countless others.
From the very beginning, symmetry was not just a calculation. “symmetria” was, as the definition says, and agreement, a relationship.
In our modern and highly technological age, where we seek to measure everything, we might do well to remember that “symmetria” isn’t just a number.
In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “The Message of Symmetry”, as well as the music of David Andrew Wiebe.
Thank you for listening!
What questions will you be taking with you after listening to this episode?
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by David Andrew Wiebe | Jul 20, 2017 | The Question Podcast
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We live in a complicated world. We live complicated lives within a complicated human landscape. Our complicated lives are made more complicated by the complicated biological, ecological, zoological, psychological, socio-economical, political, technological, and cosmological realities we interact with every day.
“Interact” may be too kind of a word to use in many of these cases. So often, too often, we don’t really interact. We’re more likely to react to the overwhelming realities that surround and often dominate us.
For complicated people like us, reacting is often the least complicated thing we’ll ever do. Reacting doesn’t make us simple, except perhaps for the simple conclusion we often reach as we react to the overwhelming reality – that complicated equals chaos.
By definition, chaos makes no sense. We are persuaded, even conditioned, to believe that our inability to make sense of these massive complicated realities renders the whole hot mess an expression of massive chaos.
Of course, if it is chaos, it’s probably also massively random as well. The most recent and fashionable new meme for this chaos is called the Law of Unintended Consequences. Does it really seem sensible, beyond our desire to appear intellectual, philosophical, or even spiritual, that the gentle beating of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can set off a catastrophic tornado in Texas? That feels like an unintended consequence, which could only be verified if you were able to ask the butterfly its intention.
In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “The Message of Symmetry”, as well as the music of David Andrew Wiebe.
Thank you for listening!
What questions will you be taking with you after listening to this episode?
We encourage you to connect with us via social media:
by David Andrew Wiebe | Jul 19, 2017 | The Question Podcast
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After a time, he allowed the students to exist the bus, still blindfolded, he asked the group to make their best guess for the direction of the university campus, and point their fingers in that direction. Surprisingly, a significant number of the students pointed in the correct direction.
He replicated the experiment the very next day with the same students. Only this time, he secretly inserted small magnets into their blindfolds. And again, surprisingly, there was a significant reduction in the number of students who pointed in the right direction.
This type of magnetic interference often happens to migrating birds flying near high-tension power lines or microwave towers. They lose their way.
In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “What Guides Your Compass”, as well as the music of Shannon Magee.
Thank you for listening!
What questions will you be taking with you after listening to this episode?
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