A Philosophical Argument for Depth
“The world used to be”: from page xi of Dreyfus, Hubert, and Sean Dorrance Kelly.
All Things Shining:
Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age. New York: Free Press, 2011.
“The Enlightenment’s metaphysical embrace”: Ibid., 204.
“Because each piece of wood is distinct”: Ibid., 210.
“is not to generate meaning”: Ibid., 209.
“Beautiful code is short and concise”: from a THNKR interview with Santiago Gonzalez available online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw.
“We who cut mere stones” and
“Within the overall structure”: from the preface of Hunt, Andrew, and David
Thomas.
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master . New York: Addison-Wesley
Professional, 1999.
Homo Sapiens Deepensis
“I’ll live the focused life”: from page 14 of Gallagher,
Rapt.
Rule #1
Hofmann, W., R. Baumeister, G. Förster, and K. Vohs. “Everyday Temptations: An Experience Sampling Study of
Desire, Conflict, and Self-Control.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 102.6 (2012): 1318–1335.
“Desire turned out to be the norm, not the exception”: from page 3 of Baumeister, Roy F., and John Tierney.
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
“taking a break from [hard] work”: Ibid., 4.
Original study: Baumeister, R., E. Bratlavsky, M. Muraven, and D. M. Tice. “Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a
Limited Resource?”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74 (1998): 1252–1265.
Decide on Your Depth Philosophy
“What I do takes long hours of studying” and
“I have been a happy man”: from Donald Knuth’s Web page:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html.
“Persons who wish to interfere with my concentration”: from Neal Stephenson’s old website, in a page titled
“My
Ongoing
Battle
with
Continuous
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