Meditation and Performance

Time blow the dust off my favourite software-industry parable:

http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Meditation-driven-development.html

After a little consideration, I've decided I don't agree with your position, and that's not because I'm religious (I'm not) and it's not because I disagree with the separation of religion and work. (I do.)

No, the reason I disagree with your position is because you've made a piece of information taboo merely because of the source. Not all passages from the Bible are religious, and even the ones that can have meaning in non-religious contexts. The fact that the book is holy to someone should not provide the impulse to discard its entire contents without a second thought.

Even if all of the above rings hollow to you, the suggestion that people contemplate a Bible verse in the initial incarnation of "MDD" is actually somewhat pertinent to the parable, in that later groups practicing "MDD" throw out the Bible verse and instead meditate reflectively on famous poems, and the story notes that this substitution is no less effective.

Yet you stopped reading an insightful story because you're concerned that a made-up person in a made-up situation suggested thinking about a Bible verse.

Sorry if this sounds like concern-trolling.

Tech really ruins everything, doesn't it? First San Francisco, now Buddhism. What's next?

If you're interested in meditation, Taoist practice is much harder to ruin. There is way less expectation as to what you should and shouldn't be doing. Just practice. :)

Tit for tat?

Its not tech specific, but anything with a large potential for "success". This is nothing new. Zen has been commercialized repeatedly within economic bubbles.

To each their own; but mantra based meditations are probably more effective at attaining hemisphere coherence which is what brings gains in creativity at those random moments throughout the day. http://youtu.be/RAETeTPhekk?t=1m40s