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Aphorisms
1. Craft means skillful action towards a goal.
From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure. Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).
2. An action is skillfully done when it causes no accident or mishap.
3. Mishaps come from mistakes.
4. The merely skillful guard against mishaps; the master omits their cause.
5. Indeed, the essence of craft is simply the omission of mistakes.
6. The work of masterful craft is always beautiful to one who admires its goals.
1. Software is nothing but structure, and that structure is inherently empty of meaning.
2. We give meaning to structure through interpretation.
c.f. Alan Kay.
3. The foundation of structure is: this and that; this is not that; that is not this; this relates to that.
4. This is not that; that is not this; they are distinct. Yet that and this are one, inseparable.
5. This, that, and the relation between them arise together; all are empty.
"like a back and a front — you don't get one without the other" —Alan Watts
What's a zero? Whatever a one isn't. What's a one? Whatever isn't a zero.
6. A structure assumes meaning through its effects.
7. Yet the effect of structure is only to act upon structure.
8. All is structure, empty, meaningless; yet nothing is without its meaning.
9. If the forms of structure were to stop assuming their meaning, in that instant the universe would disappear.
Why does the universe appear in consciousness? Simply: because if it didn't, it wouldn't appear to exist at all. Out of all possible universes, the only ones that exist are the conscious ones.