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And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Re: programmer's mind

Well, the thought about "acting normal" is the "deep zen" notion that:
enlightenment is just acting normal! So, act normal and forget about
all the other crap that people have been weighing you down with.

Me, I like it.

As for Crane, that is of course a splendid example and challenge. I
am certainly still very interested in it. But distance in space will
grind away proximity in interest unless something is done to keep
shared motivation alive. If we can understand how to do this, then
maybe we can also chip away at still greater mysteries.

As for wasting time: today I have the poetic notion that a fun way to
spend time is like folding an origami crane. (Maybe we should really
fold some to increase motivation.)

Fold this experience together with that experience; fold some more;
fold some more. Pull, then you have a nice result. This is
practically applied when pursuing different human relationships,
different projects, different ways of doing things (all practically
simultaneously). For each one of these, compensate over there with
some of those. I wouldn't call it "wasting time" if you're doing
something you enjoy or if you haven't got anything better to do.

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