Month: July 2013

• July 29, 2013

  A right discipline: Daily practice

  A right discipline is not a regime that one imposes upon oneself from without. A right discipline begins with lived experiences of what is best, of intimations of the elongation and prolongation of what is best. Taking the idea of prolongation seriously, a right discipline makes explicit to one how it is possible to maintain oneself in…
• July 26, 2013

  Cultivating Discipline Lightly: A Weeklong Course at Kaos Pilots

  ‘Cultivating Discipline Lightly’ is a weeklong course running during the second week of September 2013 at Kaos Pilots in Aarhus, Denmark. This course offering grew out of the need for Kaos Pilots students, who will be on their own during their final year as they work on their social business project, to learn how to…
• July 24, 2013

  On doing lots of things and doing them well

  The chief problem with thinking of work in terms of a career is that one gets in the habit of thinking that one can only do one thing well. But then at some point one gets stuck because that sort of thing is no longer desirable or because one can no longer stomach the idea…
• July 23, 2013

  A good human life flows according to nature

  The following occurred to one conversation partner and me yesterday morning. After our philosophical conversation, I ate lunch, then went for a climb, only to be brought home by the early afternoon desert rain. * A good human life flows according to basic categories (or modes) of human experience: movement, rest, thinking, conversing, having sex,…
• July 20, 2013

  Airbnb Etiquette

  Etiquette is not Law Unlike law, etiquette doesn’t  apply to all cases of one’s conduct. It applies only in certain circumstances, where appropriate. Etiquette is not Rule Whereas a rule permits only certain kinds of behavior (e.g., speaking after being called upon) while forbidding other kinds (e.g., no running in the halls), etiquette makes no…