diff --git a/Title Lila.md b/Pirsig Robert - Lila.md similarity index 100% rename from Title Lila.md rename to Pirsig Robert - Lila.md diff --git a/Title Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma.md b/Pirsig Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md similarity index 100% rename from Title Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma.md rename to Pirsig Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md diff --git a/Reading List - Lila.md b/Reading List - Lila.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9c7dd44..0000000 --- a/Reading List - Lila.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Reading List - Lila -tags: [ readinglist/read ] ---- - -# Title: Lila - -## Author: [[Robert Pirsig]] - -**Started Reading**: 'unknown' - -**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' - -[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31093.Lila) - ---- - -### Highlights - -**Pirsig's Zettelkasten** - here's where he describes his paper-tray, slips-of-paper method of note-taking. I've read that Pirsig did not consider this a Zettelkasten, but the similarities are striking. Zettelkasten or not, these categories have inspired my notes as well. - -> "The first was UNASSIMILATED. This contained new ideas that interrupted what he was doing. They came in on the spur of the moment while he was organizing the other slips or sailing or working on the boat or doing something else that didn't want to be disturbed." - -> "PROGRAM slips were instructions for what to do with the rest of the slips. They kept track of the forest while he was busy thinking about individual trees." - -> "The next slips were the CRIT slips. These were for days when he woke up in a foul mood and could find nothing but fault everywhere. He knew from experience that if he threw stuff away on these days he would regret it later, so instead he satisfied his anger by just describing all the stuff he wanted to destroy and the reasons for destroying it." - -> "The next to the last group was the TOUGH category. This contained slips that seemed to say something of importance but didn't fit into any topic he could think of." - -> "The final category was JUNK. These were slips that seemed of high value when he wrote them down but which now seemed awful." - ---- - -> "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it." - -### Links - -* [Robert Pirsig's PROGRAM slips](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/pirsig-lila/) - - -[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md b/Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md deleted file mode 100644 index aaa2e18..0000000 --- a/Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -tags: [ readinglist/read ] ---- - -# Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - -## Author: [[Robert Pirsig]] - -**Started Reading**: unknown - -**Finished Reading**: unknown - -### Highlights - -A repair shop filled with youngsters listening to music. -> "The shop was a different scene from the ones I remembered. The mechanics, who had once all seemed like ancient veterans, now looked like children. A radio was going full blast and they were clowning around and talking and seemed not to notice me. When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying, "Oh yeah. Tappets." -> Tappets? I should have known then what was coming. -> Two weeks later I paid their bill for 140 dollars, rode the cycle carefully at varying low speeds to wear it in and then after one thousand miles opened it up. At about seventy-five it seized again and freed at thirty, the same as before." - -Fixing John's motorcycle handlebars with a piece of beer can "shimstock" -> "As far as I know those handlebars are still loose. And I believe now that he was actually offended at the time. I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can!" - -DeWeese's Light Switch -> "He had the illusion the trouble was in the wire near the bulb because immediately upon toggling the switch the light went out. If the trouble had been in the switch, he felt, there would have been a lapse of time before the trouble showed up in the bulb. Phaedrus did not argue with this, but went across the street to the hardware store, bought a switch and in a few minutes had it installed. It worked immediately, of course, leaving DeWeese puzzled and frustrated. -> "How did you know the trouble was in the switch?" he asked. -> "Because it worked intermittently when I jiggled the switch." -> "Well - couldn't it jiggle the wire?" -> "No." -> Phaedrus' cocksure attitude angered DeWeese and he started to argue. -> "How do you know all that?" he said. -> "It's obvious." -> "Well then, why didn't I see it?" -> "You have to have some familiarity." -> "Then it's not obvious, is it?" - -Gradeless University -> "it dealt with the specific career of an imaginary student who more or less typified what was found in the classroom, a student completely conditioned to work for a grade rather than for the knowledge the grade was supposed to represent" - -### Links - -* [Robert Pirsig's PROGRAM slips](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/pirsig-lila/) - -[[Reading List Index]]