This document discusses mindfulness, simplicity in design, and evolution. It notes that Apple emphasizes insane simplicity and Zen principles in its design. It also discusses how the mind can change the brain, Steve Jobs' awareness of Zen and minimalism, and how a single neuron functions as a simple on/off switch. Finally, it provides timelines showing the evolutionary history of life, humans, tool-making, and eye color.

1. Punch a Higher Floor 🎶

2. Mindfulness
Let’s Go Crazy 🎼

3. The Great Questions?

4. Simplicity
 Folks at Apple call it insane simplicity.
 Zen is everywhere in the company's design.

5. Simplicity in Design

6. Enso
Art by a Japaenese Zen monk,
Sengai Gibon, 19th Century

7. Mind Changes Brain

8. The Awareness of Steve Jobs

9. Zen and Minimalism

10. A Design Revolution

12. One Simple Neuron . . .
One neuron: on or off. A simple switch, yes?

13. The Connectome - 2

14. Evolution
• ~ 4+ billion years of earth
• 3.5 billion years of life
• 650 million years of multi-celled organisms
• 600 million years of nervous system
• ~ 200 million years of mammals
• ~ 60 million years of primates
• ~ 6 million years ago: last common ancestor with chimpanzees, our
closest relative among the “great apes” (gorillas, orangutans,
chimpanzees, bonobos, humans)
• ~ 2.5 million years of tool-making (starting with brains 1/3 our size)
• ~ 150,000 years of homo sapiens
• ~ 50,000 years of modern humans
• ~ 5000 years of blue, green, hazel eyes

15. Evolutionary History
The Triune Brain

30. "You touched
an ugly world
of technology
and made it
beautiful."

32. Green and Sustainability
Hang tough children 🎶
…and make it
beautiful!