Here I'll try to figure out some things that help the world make sense or at least help navigate it.

The Problem

Life is confusing. It's hard to know what is worth spending time on. What is true or better or good?

The Goal

To improve life for myself and for others. To improve the world.

Intro

At some point I may try to explore the motivation for pursuing quality, but for now I'll start with that as a goal.

Some Core Ideas

• Everything is connected.
• High quality rewards deep participation.
  • a quality song or symphony or movie or literature or architecture or product gives a greater reward the deeper someone engages with it—in fact, it gets better with time
  • quality almost always requires something of the participant
    • knowledge
    • caretaking
    • practice
    • work
• Facades are easily and immediately appealing to the senses
  • visual, musical, comfortable to the touch, taste, etc.
  • I don’t think there’s anything wrong with facades
  • To only live with and engage with facades seems to dampen the human ability to experience the richness of quality
  • Facades can be enjoyed by anyone without prior or acquired experience
• To appreciate requires knowledge
  • For a facade to be enjoyable, it must
    • be immediately accessible
    • do all the work for the participant

Ideas from some Authors/Thinkers

Christopher Alexander

• patterns of life
• “it is possible to make something dead but not make it live—the best we can do is create an environment that nurtures life” (To do: get real quote)

Robert Pirsig

• Quality

The Tao

“The Tao that is spoken is not the true/eternal Tao” Once you name something, it is no longer that thing but just a summary of that thing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Until something is defined (named, see Tao), it can not be measured and therefore is not a thing that can be acted on. (To do: refine this description)