Imperfect systems

Well, today was productive but exhausting. Quite a bit of work got done on developing systems to get work done that I think is important, but, one type of work that I think is important is writing something reasonably coherent if not necessarily deeply insightful here every day. And, while I had ideas for a system to make that work better, I didn’t get to the point of working on them today since I got a lot of other work done, and then relaxed and just forgot about it.

Luckily, such a minor failure is a great example of wabisabi in daily life. I think a significant cause of anxiety is the desire for perfection. Almost everyone I know, myself included, worries that whatever they’re doing isn’t good enough, largely because it isn’t perfect, or at lea

Isn’t autosave wonderful when you have unexpected computer problems while writing a post?