Prathyush
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These errors, once realized enables one to course-correct their process repertoire into something that is aligned with the working of the world. They are not damning about the character of the person, but opportunities to grow and adapt to one’s environment.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
These errors, once realized enables one to course-correct their process repertoire into something that is aligned with the working of the world. They are not damning about the character of the person, but opportunities to grow and adapt to one’s environment.
One will inevitably encounter a beautiful mess of errors and flaws as one attempts to accomplish their vision this way. These are informative events on the nature of reality, the person, and their interaction with their world.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
One will inevitably encounter a beautiful mess of errors and flaws as one attempts to accomplish their vision this way. These are informative events on the nature of reality, the person, and their interaction with their world.
This requires shifting from the mode of seeking control over outcomes and seeing everything as an instrumental means to achieving something. One shifts over to a process-oriented paradigm where one sees activities as ends in themselves and enjoys the activity as an end-in-itself.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This requires shifting from the mode of seeking control over outcomes and seeing everything as an instrumental means to achieving something. One shifts over to a process-oriented paradigm where one sees activities as ends in themselves and enjoys the activity as an end-in-itself.
In summary, by acknowledging one’s limits, one can engage authentically with the world surrendering to its rhythm. This way, one gets to immerse in deep time and be able to relish the rough texture of life. Atelic activities makes one more attuned with the rhythm.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In summary, by acknowledging one’s limits, one can engage authentically with the world surrendering to its rhythm. This way, one gets to immerse in deep time and be able to relish the rough texture of life. Atelic activities makes one more attuned with the rhythm.
Embracing the finitude of life allows one to relish the raw texture of life. This is accessible when one is immersed in deep time and engages with one’s life fully instead of living in the untethered state, attempting to gain illusory control over the way the world unfolds.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Embracing the finitude of life allows one to relish the raw texture of life. This is accessible when one is immersed in deep time and engages with one’s life fully instead of living in the untethered state, attempting to gain illusory control over the way the world unfolds.
Wabi-Sabi describes an aesthetic stance that embraces the ephemerality of things and gives space for life’s imperfections and incompleteness. It embraces the flaws and shortcomings as part and parcel of life.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Wabi-Sabi describes an aesthetic stance that embraces the ephemerality of things and gives space for life’s imperfections and incompleteness. It embraces the flaws and shortcomings as part and parcel of life.
These sorts of communal aspects are erased away as life gets more slick. There is an attempt at smoothening all this and getting to a polished surface where redundancies perceived as slack/errors/imperfections are wiped away, making way for the most optimal mechanism.
January 29, 2026 at 12:52 PM
These sorts of communal aspects are erased away as life gets more slick. There is an attempt at smoothening all this and getting to a polished surface where redundancies perceived as slack/errors/imperfections are wiped away, making way for the most optimal mechanism.
Imperfections imbue things with character. Their rough textures reflect the essence of life in their surfaces. A great example from the book is how Uber decentralizes and automates away the small talk that used to happen when cab drivers huddled together in a central spot.
January 29, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Imperfections imbue things with character. Their rough textures reflect the essence of life in their surfaces. A great example from the book is how Uber decentralizes and automates away the small talk that used to happen when cab drivers huddled together in a central spot.
Like a walk without a destination, the point of it is in performing the activity. By engaging in them, one gets to be in the moment and enjoy the process rather than living in a projected future where you will have everything under control.
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Like a walk without a destination, the point of it is in performing the activity. By engaging in them, one gets to be in the moment and enjoy the process rather than living in a projected future where you will have everything under control.
The author's antidote here is to engage in activities that are not end-driven but are done just for the purpose of engaging in them. These are called atelic activities. They are conducted for the sake of doing the activity. The means is the end.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The author's antidote here is to engage in activities that are not end-driven but are done just for the purpose of engaging in them. These are called atelic activities. They are conducted for the sake of doing the activity. The means is the end.
This contrasts with the instrumentalist mode of treating everything as a means to get to some end goal. It is pointed out that we treat time, nature, and possibly eventually our relationships as a kind of resource that can be optimized in this way.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
This contrasts with the instrumentalist mode of treating everything as a means to get to some end goal. It is pointed out that we treat time, nature, and possibly eventually our relationships as a kind of resource that can be optimized in this way.
By surrendering to the rhythms of the universe, one gets to listen and discover what is important. One can engage deeply with the world around them, accumulating local meaning derived through this authentic engagement. The author calls this kind of subjective time: “deep time”.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
By surrendering to the rhythms of the universe, one gets to listen and discover what is important. One can engage deeply with the world around them, accumulating local meaning derived through this authentic engagement. The author calls this kind of subjective time: “deep time”.
This entails consciously sacrificing many tasks and engaging in the few that matter rather than keeping on looking for the most optimal system that purports to help us achieve all our goals and clear our wish lists.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
This entails consciously sacrificing many tasks and engaging in the few that matter rather than keeping on looking for the most optimal system that purports to help us achieve all our goals and clear our wish lists.
Four Thousand Weeks was a pretty good read on the finitude of life and how we foster an illusion of control over our time through time management techniques. It advocates instead for embracing the finitude of life.
January 28, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Four Thousand Weeks was a pretty good read on the finitude of life and how we foster an illusion of control over our time through time management techniques. It advocates instead for embracing the finitude of life.
This disposition interlocks with the ideas in 4000 weeks. The act of embracing our flaws is a way of living authentically and attending fully to the complexities of life rather than fleeing from its ugly, unpredictable, and messy aspects.
January 28, 2026 at 10:32 AM
This disposition interlocks with the ideas in 4000 weeks. The act of embracing our flaws is a way of living authentically and attending fully to the complexities of life rather than fleeing from its ugly, unpredictable, and messy aspects.
This is in stark contrast to imposing our will to change the world in a particular way. Our perpetual lack of grounding in understanding the way the world works leads to resentment and internal turmoil for we are not working with the world rather against it.
January 28, 2026 at 10:31 AM
This is in stark contrast to imposing our will to change the world in a particular way. Our perpetual lack of grounding in understanding the way the world works leads to resentment and internal turmoil for we are not working with the world rather against it.
If we take up the curious role of a researcher of life, we can see our endeavours as experiments where we are trying to understand what the world is really telling us through the outcomes of our actions.
January 28, 2026 at 10:31 AM
If we take up the curious role of a researcher of life, we can see our endeavours as experiments where we are trying to understand what the world is really telling us through the outcomes of our actions.
This contrasts with seeing failures as judgements that box us to “not have it.” Growth mindset flips this around: failures are not indicative of flaws in our eternally fixed character but rather learning opportunities to course-correct the processes we employ in our lives.
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 AM
This contrasts with seeing failures as judgements that box us to “not have it.” Growth mindset flips this around: failures are not indicative of flaws in our eternally fixed character but rather learning opportunities to course-correct the processes we employ in our lives.
Mindset gives good pointers here. A central idea is the perspective shift to see errors and flaws as pointers to missing pieces of knowledge. With this, we see failures and errors as informative events that enable us to grow, adapt, and rectify our life processes.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Mindset gives good pointers here. A central idea is the perspective shift to see errors and flaws as pointers to missing pieces of knowledge. With this, we see failures and errors as informative events that enable us to grow, adapt, and rectify our life processes.
Now that we have a rough idea of the lay of the land of how the mind attempts to control over imperfections, impermanence, and unpredictability of life, let us look at what perspective one can adopt to see the world differently.
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Now that we have a rough idea of the lay of the land of how the mind attempts to control over imperfections, impermanence, and unpredictability of life, let us look at what perspective one can adopt to see the world differently.
Instead of accepting the fact that ultimately we don’t have absolute control over the world and surrendering to the way the world works, we engineer out Rube Goldberg style systems that control the world through myriad parameters eked out through our rational endeavours.
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Instead of accepting the fact that ultimately we don’t have absolute control over the world and surrendering to the way the world works, we engineer out Rube Goldberg style systems that control the world through myriad parameters eked out through our rational endeavours.
The language of optimisation from engineering and economics seeps into personal lives, and looks-maxxing, self-maxxing and agency maxxing are the common lingo in tech-adjacent Internet. One “locks in” to optimise some chosen metric, usually at the cost of many others.
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The language of optimisation from engineering and economics seeps into personal lives, and looks-maxxing, self-maxxing and agency maxxing are the common lingo in tech-adjacent Internet. One “locks in” to optimise some chosen metric, usually at the cost of many others.