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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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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…
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More imperfect insights
Well, today has been a good reminder of the ubiquity of wabisabi in the real world. Today has been a pretty good day, but none of the goals that I hoped to achieve were completely achieved. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful day, quite sunny and warm, which made for a very pleasant contrast to last…
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Insights from real life wabisabi
So, I did have an attempt at a plan for all of my writing for this week, and one thing that this week has taught me so far is that my plan was pretty poorly made. The details aren’t important enough, but today was complicated enough that I neither made any kintsugi nor have any…
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Daily life wabisabi
Today was a fairly imperfect day. The details of the imperfections aren’t really that important. Nothing terrible happened, just a few pretty dumb things. Have I found strength or beauty in today yet? No, but I have found a considerable bit of humor, which has at least a little beauty in it. For extra humor,…
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If it ain’t great, why not make it better?
Any one of us can go to a store, or go online, and find anything that we want. And that’s pretty great, don’t get me wrong. But, many times, the objects themselves aren’t necessarily that great. They are all incredibly convenient. As an example, I thought of something that I assumed was impossible to get…
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If it ain’t broke. . .
At some point, we have all caused problems for ourselves by being unsatisfied with something for reasons that weren’t clearly defined, and then deciding that whatever thing we were unsatisfied with needed to be fixed. Usually, that causes more problems because in our misguided attempt to fix the thing, we end up breaking it and…
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Beginnings are often imperfect
I wonder if I’ll delete this once I know what I’m doing. It’s not exactly ugly, but it’s definitely not very pretty yet, but that’s ok. Whether this stays or not, it works reasonably well as a test at least.
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