Posts related to thinking, psychology, or other endeavors of the mind.
We recently packed up everything and moved to a smaller place. This means that anything truly important to me, that I need to get stuff done, is most likely packed up in a box in storage. It’s not chaos exactly, or disorder. It’s just that everything is ten times harder than it needs to be.…
In this fictionalized account of a real two-week motorcycle trip that Robert Pirsig took with his son Christopher and two friends, Pirsig explores a number of philosophical themes through informal observations that he calls “Chautauquas.” At the start of the story Pirsig sets up a conflict between two mindsets, the Romantic and the Classical. The…
Anne-Laure Le Cunff observes that the French have a phrase cultiver son jardin intérieur – or caring for your interior garden. It’s a way of saying that the mind is like a garden. There is more to the comparison than simple metaphor. The garden is one of humanity’s oldest creations. And there seems to be…
The other morning I had a mind-blowing revelation – this breaking news that has people freaking out – it’s all bullshit. There’s a bigger problem facing us and we don’t even see it. The insight came to me while I was headed for work southbound on the 101 freeway, taking a break from the headlines…
