Month: March 2019

First day back from Spring Break!

• Discussion Part 3 (Rayyan)
  • They climb mountain; Chris has resentment towards his father
  • Gets spooked because he hears rockslides, feels like something bad will happen so they decide to climb other peak next time
  • Quality is the dao. Phaedrus started reading the dao, and it is exactly what he was trying to explain in quality.
  • Poncaire: chaos theory, getting away from absolutes
  • End of absolutes (beginning of 20th century), no more absolutes (time, space, substance, magnitude, etc.) is relativity (time dilation, length contraction, antimatter, quantum mechanics)
  • Go back to Bozeman for a night for rest
  • Different font so Phaedrus is re-taking over the mind and this worries the narrator
  • Heads for California
  • Quality is something inherent in every single philosophy and this was not considered before, like the Buddha
  • 3 diff ways of getting stuck: gumption traps (like grit that helps you persevere thru challenges, can rise and fall) (parts failure, intermittent failure), setbacks (ego traps, value trap, etc), hang-ups
  • Monkey trap: monkey puts hand thru hole to grab rice but then gets stuck
  • Dream with the glass door: he has a dream where he’s behind the glass door and wife and Chris are on the other side, Chris trying to ask him to open door but he wont
  • Miu: everything can be answered by yes/no question (Japanese concept)
  • Miu if you cant answer w yes or no, then you answer miu because you need to ask a better question
  • Most important part is the traps!! Learn to just stick with it
  • If things not going well, chill
  • Most mistakes happen when you’re working on something too long
• Discussion Part 4 (Leslie)
  • Opens w the dream again but more specific and figure in shadows doesn’t let him open the door, wakes up and sees he’s strangling Chris, dreamer is Phaedrus
  • Phaedrus gaining more control
  • Wants to hospitalize himself
  • More flashbacks about endpart of phaedrus’ journey before insanity
  • Phaedrus interested in Greek philosophers, had a fight w the director of the program at UChicago
  • Logically concluded that he was approaching insanity
  • Dualism: Phaedrus used rhetoric, Director used logic
  • Reference about art and quality
  • Quality is goal of art
  • Realizes Chris misses Phaedrus
  • Chris Thinks narrator is different
  • Narrator sees mentally problematic habits in Chris
  • Phaedrus takes over in last conversation w Chris
    • Nice resolution
    • Chris asks, “are you insane?”
    • Rid binaries and united these 2 things
    • Told Chris he’s similar to Phaedrus
    • Weary at first but Phaedrus does things not really sane but realizes that Phaedrus isnt really insane
    • Chris trying to impress father, push world away
    • Better that Chris found a sol’n before finding out the way Phaedrus found out
• General comments and reviews about the book:
  • Owen: not what i expected it to be, thought it would be about getting down to basics and slowness, but actually was about a guy who was insane
  • Jack: story was very good, bogged down a bit because philosophy is heavy
  • Sarah: interesting take from motorcycle perspective
  • Prof: very good
• Shop Class as Soulcraft
  • Value of labor
  • A bit preachy
  • What one gets out of working on a motorcycle
  • When one is being diagnostic, you ask, “what does it need”
  • Asking questions is a higher level of intellectual activity than just providing answers
• Talking about the Clutch of our motorcycle
  • Bolt and nut loose which is why didn’t work before
  • If you release, everything slips so you don’t hurt yourself nor motorcycle
  • When slips, bottom chain tight and top chain loose
  • 100 pounds in bottom chain
  • 10 pounds, 1 foot
  • coeff of friction rubber, asphalt = 1
  • coeff of friction steel, steel = 0.2
  • 200 foot-pounds to move a bike, exerting more wont really help you
  • 20:1 gear ratio, so you only need 10 foot-pounds on smaller sprocket
  • To slip at higher torque, either stiffer spring or more friction plates
  • If you stiffen springs, handle stiffer so harder to operate too
  • Slips at lower torque: easier to use clutch release, easier to kickstart, but you don’t want it to release when you need power, but you wanna make sure it does release at a certain torque
  • This shows braking of the engine
  • Clutch helps you disconnect gear from motor so you can shift gears