December 2008
9 posts
How to Increase Quality
Want to increase the quality of your work? Figure out what you don’t already know. I find that for me it is usually the most basic things. There is a lot that gets skipped over, in order to make people proficient at operating machines they don’t understand. That seems like a low-quality endeavour. I’ve started using HowStuffWorks to make my understanding (and quality) deeper.
Is Quality Possible Nowadays?
I just finished reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence.
I don’t want to summarize, but some is neccecary to say what I want to say. This is my impression of the point of the book: technological, rational thought is considered by many to be some sort of a death force, and these people enjoy irrational aesthetic beauty, but they are wrong to deny the beauty that can be found in...
Writing Is Easy
So I’ve decided to start writing. A book. Of phiction (philosophy + fiction). Cute, right? Well that’s most likely the last time you’ll read the word phiction - because it’s just a lame joke. I’m sitting here bouncing all the ideas around in my head. I already have most of it together. It is largely based on my real experiences, but tweaked to make the...
Candles
Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me, and it saddens me to remember their original light. I look ahead at my lighted candles. I don’t want to turn for fear of...
