{"id":35,"date":"2019-03-26T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/?p=35"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T09:46:33","slug":"week-7-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/2019\/03\/26\/week-7-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First day back from Spring Break!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussion Part 3 (Rayyan)\n<ul>\n<li>They climb mountain; Chris has resentment towards his father<\/li>\n<li>Gets spooked because he hears rockslides, feels like something bad will happen so they decide to climb other peak next time<\/li>\n<li>Quality is the dao. Phaedrus started reading the dao, and it is exactly what he was trying to explain in quality.<\/li>\n<li>Poncaire: chaos theory, getting away from absolutes<\/li>\n<li>End of absolutes (beginning of 20th century), no more absolutes (time, space, substance, magnitude, etc.) is relativity (time dilation, length contraction, antimatter, quantum mechanics)<\/li>\n<li>Go back to Bozeman for a night for rest<\/li>\n<li>Different font so Phaedrus is re-taking over the mind and this worries the narrator<\/li>\n<li>Heads for California<\/li>\n<li>Quality is something inherent in every single philosophy and this was not considered before, like the Buddha<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Monkey trap: monkey puts hand thru hole to grab rice but then gets stuck<\/li>\n<li>Dream with the glass door: he has a dream where he\u2019s behind the glass door and wife and Chris are on the other side, Chris trying to ask him to open door but he wont<\/li>\n<li>Miu: everything can be answered by yes\/no question (Japanese concept)<\/li>\n<li>Miu if you cant answer w yes or no, then you answer miu because you need to ask a better question<\/li>\n<li>Most important part is the traps!! Learn to just stick with it<\/li>\n<li>If things not going well, chill<\/li>\n<li>Most mistakes happen when you&#8217;re working on something too long<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Discussion Part 4 (Leslie)\n<ul>\n<li>Opens w the dream again but more specific and figure in shadows doesn&#8217;t let him open the door, wakes up and sees he\u2019s strangling Chris, dreamer is Phaedrus<\/li>\n<li>Phaedrus gaining more control<\/li>\n<li>Wants to hospitalize himself<\/li>\n<li>More flashbacks about endpart of phaedrus\u2019 journey before insanity<\/li>\n<li>Phaedrus interested in Greek philosophers, had a fight w the director of the program at UChicago<\/li>\n<li>Logically concluded that he was approaching insanity<\/li>\n<li>Dualism: Phaedrus used rhetoric, Director used logic<\/li>\n<li>Reference about art and quality<\/li>\n<li>Quality is goal of art<\/li>\n<li>Realizes Chris misses Phaedrus<\/li>\n<li>Chris Thinks narrator is different<\/li>\n<li>Narrator sees mentally problematic habits in Chris<\/li>\n<li>Phaedrus takes over in last conversation w Chris\n<ul>\n<li>Nice resolution<\/li>\n<li>Chris asks, \u201care you insane?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Rid binaries and united these 2 things<\/li>\n<li>Told Chris he\u2019s similar to Phaedrus<\/li>\n<li>Weary at first but Phaedrus does things not really sane but realizes that Phaedrus isnt really insane<\/li>\n<li>Chris trying to impress father, push world away<\/li>\n<li>Better that Chris found a sol\u2019n before finding out the way Phaedrus found out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>General comments and reviews about the book:\n<ul>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Jack: story was very good, bogged down a bit because philosophy is heavy<\/li>\n<li>Sarah: interesting take from motorcycle perspective<\/li>\n<li>Prof: very good<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shop Class as Soulcraft\n<ul>\n<li>Value of labor<\/li>\n<li>A bit preachy<\/li>\n<li>What one gets out of working on a motorcycle<\/li>\n<li>When one is being diagnostic, you ask, \u201cwhat does it need\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Asking questions is a higher level of intellectual activity than just providing answers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Talking about the Clutch of our motorcycle\n<ul>\n<li>Bolt and nut loose which is why didn&#8217;t work before<\/li>\n<li>If you release, everything slips so you don&#8217;t hurt yourself nor motorcycle<\/li>\n<li>When slips, bottom chain tight and top chain loose<\/li>\n<li>100 pounds in bottom chain<\/li>\n<li>10 pounds, 1 foot<\/li>\n<li>coeff of friction rubber, asphalt = 1<\/li>\n<li>coeff of friction steel, steel = 0.2<\/li>\n<li>200 foot-pounds to move a bike, exerting more wont really help you<\/li>\n<li>20:1 gear ratio, so you only need 10 foot-pounds on smaller sprocket<\/li>\n<li>To slip at higher torque, either stiffer spring or more friction plates<\/li>\n<li>If you stiffen springs, handle stiffer so harder to operate too<\/li>\n<li>Slips at lower torque: easier to use clutch release, easier to kickstart, but you don&#8217;t want it to release when you need power, but you wanna make sure it does release at a certain torque<\/li>\n<li>This shows braking of the engine<\/li>\n<li>Clutch helps you disconnect gear from motor so you can shift gears<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/2019\/03\/26\/week-7-tuesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 7: Tuesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/60-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}