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061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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Mindfulness Meditation

Akhmed recently wrote a piece detailing how mindfulness meditation migrated from monasteries to the modern mainstream startup culture. I caught up with him at a noisy Whole Foods over Skype in San Francisco, so please forgive this audio. According to Akhmed, it had a lot to do with our fear of nuclear annihilation. "These are ways of being that can help stave off a nuclear holocaust," he says.

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