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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called “Zen Flesh, Zen Bones”. Being vegetarian - the “flesh” bit didn’t grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did. 

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It’s kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope. 
Tech Stuff

Design Stuff

Random Blog Post</description><title>zen bones...</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @zenbones)</generator><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/</link><item><title>There’s so much in this presentation!</title><description>&lt;iframe src="//slides.com/benedictevans/mew/embed" width="400" height="292" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;There’s so much in this presentation!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/154506465737</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/154506465737</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:56:03 +0200</pubDate><category>mobile</category><category>tech</category></item><item><title>"My morning pondering: Nothing lasts forever. For example, yesterday Blackberry finally announced..."</title><description>“My morning pondering: Nothing lasts forever. For example, yesterday Blackberry finally announced that they are no longer going to be making phones. They seemed unstoppable as little as 8 or 9 years ago. Nokia is going a similar route (although not quite dead yet). Only 16 companies that were in the Fortune 500 in 1900 still exist today. That thing that you think is here to stay, isn’t. Make sure you figure out how to thrive in the impermanence of things.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Steve’s Morning Ponderings&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/151092685277</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/151092685277</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:17:46 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Smartphones vs feature phones in Africa</title><description>&lt;div class="atlas-chart" data-id="4k1rro3_" data-width="400" data-height="256"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.theatlas.com/i/atlas_4k1rro3_.png" style="max-width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script src="https://www.theatlas.com/javascripts/atlas.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Smartphones vs feature phones in Africa&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/144253405402</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/144253405402</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 18:24:44 +0200</pubDate><category>tech</category><category>mobile</category><category>charts</category><category>africa</category></item><item><title>Want to Win Big? Choose Your Colors Carefully</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.ozy.com/pov/want-to-win-big-choose-your-colors-carefully/68680"&gt;Want to Win Big? Choose Your Colors Carefully&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/144142741982</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/144142741982</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 13:06:41 +0200</pubDate><category>colours</category><category>behavior</category><category>decisions</category></item><item><title>"I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear."</title><description>“I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Elizabeth Gilbert&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/143097422634</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/143097422634</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 06:30:29 +0200</pubDate><category>perfection</category><category>quotes</category></item><item><title>Oh, the irony.</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/09c6e17f8fc6a94f3f3dbf0316986c61/tumblr_o5jcyf6rQZ1s1bdg8o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, the irony.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/143058251782</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/143058251782</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:58:27 +0200</pubDate><category>hyphen</category><category>hyphenation</category><category>irony</category></item><item><title>This is mind-boggling. Literally.(via THE BRAIN WITH DAVID...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-nhRPVWM9A0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is mind-boggling. Literally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nhRPVWM9A0" target="_blank"&gt;THE BRAIN WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN | Cup Stacking Champion | PBS - YouTube&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/141484061187</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/141484061187</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:04:08 +0200</pubDate><category>mind</category><category>brain</category></item><item><title>UX Defining Principles and their Ranking (credits: Salesforce UX...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/7f74299850b8273f4407f4429699898a/tumblr_o3twiwj9651qz8089o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;UX Defining Principles and their Ranking (credits: Salesforce UX team)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/140801332857</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/140801332857</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:04:07 +0200</pubDate><category>ux</category><category>user experience</category><category>ui</category><category>design</category></item><item><title>It used to be 12 seconds in the 1990’s. Now it’s...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/9d30dfee83ffcd2d985c5fb42e8843b8/tumblr_o3pyhbvSUd1qz8089o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;It used to be 12 seconds in the 1990’s. Now it’s only 8. That’s how long the average attention span is (for humans). Worse than goldfish.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/140682859372</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/140682859372</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:55:59 +0200</pubDate><category>attention</category></item><item><title>Great eBook too - (via Talking to Humans, by Giff Constable) </title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/5a2354c9212295f893bd363a3e98a89e/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/9de5b15d25bca143f42a804ec17110e7/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/fb75c672d5e3b08868fcec3c1558f7f0/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e4d094231ee50faee65c754819028cd6/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/694f4424b7798b56287fcc36f34f74c7/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/4de762e4619d5d9394f0dc78dba530bb/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/c7f7eab79efd96e30a6dfc93032509d6/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/de8412ca435fcf1189d3b5b636ec9ffc/tumblr_o1v4i7AyHW1qz8089o8_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great eBook too - (via &lt;a href="http://www.talkingtohumans.com/cartoons" target="_blank"&gt;Talking to Humans, by Giff Constable&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/138471087392</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/138471087392</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:46:55 +0200</pubDate><category>UX</category><category>interviews</category><category>research</category><category>user expereince</category><category>user experience design</category></item><item><title>Seth's Blog: The client and the customer</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/the-client-and-the-customer.html"&gt;Seth's Blog: The client and the customer&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/the-client-and-the-customer.html&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/138002169200</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/138002169200</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:30:09 +0200</pubDate><category>clients customers Seth Godin</category></item><item><title>Common Misconceptions - read and learn - don’t spread myths.</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/501c6603b836cfe29b0cb948327bfa05/tumblr_o0so2t89nx1qz8089o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Common Misconceptions - read and learn - don’t spread myths.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/137090844072</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/137090844072</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:23:17 +0200</pubDate><category>myths</category><category>common myths</category></item><item><title>"When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the..."</title><description>“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it’s really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s sort of the middle, and that’s where most people stop.&lt;br/&gt;
“But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem — and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Steve Jobs, Insanely Great&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/134921214437</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/134921214437</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:49:29 +0200</pubDate><category>steve jobs</category><category>quotes</category><category>simplicity</category></item><item><title>bydesign:

laughingsquid:

Organizational Charts for Tech...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnk13ry6u01qz4ttho1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://bydesign.tumblr.com/post/7065592841" target="_blank"&gt;bydesign&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/7048116072" target="_blank"&gt;laughingsquid&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://laughingsquid.com/organizational-charts-for-tech-companies/" target="_blank"&gt;Organizational Charts for Tech Companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/134782091477</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/134782091477</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:56:32 +0200</pubDate><category>organisation</category><category>tech</category><category>org charts</category></item><item><title>How much do you charge? Dan Ariely is such a smart behavioural...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x8baBvOk0ng?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Locks"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;How much do you charge? Dan Ariely&lt;/b&gt; is such a smart behavioural guru. Once you’ve watched the video, read the debate here:  &lt;a href="http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/" target="_blank"&gt;http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/131347807287</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/131347807287</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:47:31 +0200</pubDate><category>dan ariely</category><category>behaviour</category></item><item><title>Dear Apple iOS UX people, In which world would it be awesome to...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/68c6e13ebd782e32b173339b6937ee8f/tumblr_nuctl3Pixv1qz8089o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/3c98a26e365bce4696d5002c212af5a5/tumblr_nuctl3Pixv1qz8089o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Apple iOS UX people, In which world would it be awesome to totally obscure the video image when the user decides that the volume is either too loud or too soft? Can we please get rid of this dumb pop-up or move it to the bottom of the image as a thin graphic line. Thanks, your fans.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/128629124232</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/128629124232</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:39:03 +0200</pubDate><category>apple</category><category>ios</category><category>ux</category><category>video</category><category>tech</category></item><item><title>Artisanal water. Hand-crafted. Only $11 a litre. </title><description>&lt;iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/131422396?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;app_id=122963" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" title="The Timmy Brothers – Water Makers"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Artisanal water. Hand-crafted. Only $11 a litre. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/125759150407</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/125759150407</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:10:41 +0200</pubDate><category>water</category><category>humour</category><category>fun</category><category>artisanal</category><category>parody</category></item><item><title>Create a Conversation, Not a Presentation</title><description>&lt;a href="https://hbr.org/2015/07/create-a-conversation-not-a-presentation"&gt;Create a Conversation, Not a Presentation&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;If you regularly do presentations, especially business related pitches or “big reveals” of a solution, you need to read this. I have to learn to do this more. https://hbr.org/2015/07/create-a-conversation-not-a-presentation &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/125745715222</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/125745715222</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:35:02 +0200</pubDate><category>leading teams</category><category>pitches</category><category>presentations</category></item><item><title>3 Typography Tips For A More Comfortable Read</title><description>&lt;a href="https://medium.com/@lukejonesme/3-typography-tips-for-a-more-comfortable-read-fed478affa8d"&gt;3 Typography Tips For A More Comfortable Read&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;If you use MS Word, or Google Docs, or any darn word processor, you NEED to read this. It really is so simple to get this right.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/125242943427</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/125242943427</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:56:29 +0200</pubDate><category>word processing</category><category>typography</category><category>layout</category><category>design</category></item><item><title>196 slides on the state of the internet in 2015 (trends)</title><description>&lt;iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/sUM0BRj7Dd2ENC" width="400" height="334" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;div style="margin-bottom:5px"&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="//www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-v1" title="2015 Internet Trends Report" target="_blank"&gt;2015 Internet Trends Report&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="//www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins" target="_blank"&gt;Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;196 slides on the state of the internet in 2015 (trends)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/122418161492</link><guid>https://www.stevemathew.com/post/122418161492</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:18:18 +0200</pubDate><category>trends</category><category>tech</category><category>2015</category></item></channel></rss>
