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I almost decided to re-record this episode but then I noticed that it was 1:08:01 (108 forward and backwards!) and I finished saying “One hour and eight minutes” right at 1:08! The universe approved!

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – The new calendar I created for myself

• Flow and Dream time post “1.1.1 – Flow and Dream Time (FDT)”

• It’s all cycles. 108-day cycles, then 108 cycles of 108 day cycles (108.108 or 36 years), then 108 cycles of 108 cycles of 108-day cycles (108.108.108 or 3,888 years). The math is 1 cycle takes ⅓ of a year so 108 * ⅓ = 36 years and then 36 * 108 = 3,888 years.

• There are roughly 12 days in between each cycle to reflect and plan making them roughly 120 days. This is how they comfortably fit inside of 365 days.

• The end of Cycle 1 (1.108.108) will be in 2054 (2*54 is 108 🙂 ), I’ll be 75 years old. The end of Cycle 2 (2.108.108) will be in 2090, I’ll be 111… maybe I can make it!

04:46 – Why 108 days?

• 108 evolved from quarterly planning. I got the idea for doing 90-day cycles from a post from Taylor Pearson titled “Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (Without Chasing Shiny Objects)”. It’s a very detailed system and worth reading if you want to get ideas for your own system.

• Here’s the handwritten journal entry and photo post that accidentally started the 108-day cycles “Day 1: Flow to Your Dream”. The final post, “Day 108 – Being Bipolar is a NeverEnding Startup”, is a cringey application to a mobile only startup accelerator. At the time I didn’t know the difference between an accelerator and an incubator. I should have been looking for an incubator.

07:15 – Why the number 108?

• I have no idea what post I saw on Quora, but here’s a bunch of answers to the question “What is so special about the number “108”?”

• I continue talking about why 108 days.

11:36 – Taiwan’s calendar…

…aka The Republic of China calendar (Chinese: 中華民國曆) or Minguo calendar (Chinese: 民國紀年) from Wikipedia

• The 1911/Xinhai Revolution (the fall of the Qing Dynasty) on Wikipedia

• 2021 = 110 Minguo, 2019 = 108 or 1.1.1 Flow and Dream Time

13:22 – Time and Calendars Rant… lol

• Side story about Laurel Hubbard (Wikipedia), first trans women selected to compete in the Olympics and how it led to hearing the term “colonial (linguistic) violence”, what appears to be a branch of “linguistic imperialism” (Wikipedia). I found one paper titled “Linguistic Imperialism: Colonial Violence through Language” (PDF) if you’re REALLY interested. Here’s the Instagram post that started the discussion on Facebook.

• Workweek and weekend on Wikipedia. It has its history and how it’s practiced around the world.

19:32 – Going in deeper into the number 108

• Live Action Role-Playing game (LARP) on Wikipedia. I’m LARPing in the 108 Universe.

• The Sexagenary cycle (Wikipedia) aka Stems-and-Branches. It’s where the Xinhai in Xinhai Revolution comes from.

Casey’s bootleg history of 108.

1. Yellow River Shamanism
2. Yu the Great
3. Wuism
4. Daoism
5. The blending of religious ideas (Shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) until the fall of the Qing dynasty
6. Those ideas evolving into the Republic of China
7. Those ideas fleeing to Taiwan as the Cultural Revolution destroyed “The Four Olds” (Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Customs)
8. 108 and Flowism

28: 35 – 108 Zip Code Wanhua District (Wikipedia)

• I’m going to have to do a blog post about Wanhua graffiti, but here’s a blog post with some visuals for now.

• Google Street view of Building #108 in the 108

32:01 – Pan-African Flag Emoji, Flags, and Symbols

• 道 from Daoism in Red, Black, and Green (Instagram) Instagram accounts of photographer and models are at the bottom of the post

• Blog post about this history of the colors for Kenya “BLACK, RED AND GREEN: The story behind the Kenyan flag”

• History of Flags (Wikipedia)

• The Eight Banners (Wikipedia) were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and the Qing dynasty of China into which all Manchu households were placed.

43:40 – Shamanism, Taoism and 108

• The number 108 on Wikipedia

• Correction: 108 degrees is the inside angle of a pentagon, not a pentagram

• 6 (touch, taste, hearing, seeing, smelling, consciousness) * 3 (pleasant, painful, neutral) * 2 (internal or external) * (past, present, future) = 108

52:55 – About Flow to Your Dream and this podcast

• “The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York” (Amazon)

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