Category: philosophy
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What Goethe Can Teach Us Today
I had once read that there were three men who were geniuses in three distinct disciplines. Goethe was one, along with Albert Einstein and Albert Schweitzer. Goethe has also been cited in several of my other, recent readings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was no ordinary writer. As Rüdiger Safranski shows in his masterful biography, Goethe…
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The Philosophy of The One-Straw Revolution
When we sold our Pennsylvania house, we had to install a new septic system as a condition of the sale. The only place on the property that suited the installation was at the location of my garden, so the garden had to be destroyed. I had gardened for 16 years using permaculture principles. No chemical…
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Amor fati
One of our neighbors here in Vermont passed away this past weekend. I had only known him about a year. He was a very nice person and seemed to be in good shape only a week ago. Very involved in the community. He was younger than I am. Amor Fati – a love of fate.…
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Subtract
From a blog post from Derek Silvers: “No amount of adding will get me to where I want to be. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to remove. The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to…
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Sums It Up Nicely
Though I would also need a workshop (woodworking, metalworking, blacksmithing, electronics – making).
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I Am a Strange Loop
3/2/2022:As I start to write and to blog, as I start to have time to do so, I do so to think and to organize my thoughts and experiences. I have started reading I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter. Early in the book, he makes the following statement: “And one of my firmest…
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Godel, Escher, Bach
2/26/2022:I recently started Godel, Escher, Bach: Eternal Golden Braid for the third time. The last time was probably decades ago. I had lent out my copy and lost track of it, but it was the pre-20th anniversary edition. I am now reading the 20th Anniversary Edition. It was interesting to read Douglas’ introduction to the…
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Shallow v. Deep Work
2/9/2022:The book Deep Work has a number of interesting ideas, many of which I had explored when I was working. One of the ideas that I do not think works is his idea of approaching your boss with the goal of agreeing to a percentage allocation to deep and shallow work. I have tried something…
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