This is going to be my wallpaper
β...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.β
Every month, I spend ~$30-50 on flowers, and it keeps my habit to clean very sensorially alive. Whenever I refresh the florals, I end up cleaning the space around it which ends up extending its perimeters gradually
Christopher Alexanderβs βunfoldingβ β βEventually I looked up and noticed that my life was nothing like I imagined it to be. But it *fit me.β
Law school trains you to be sensitive to 2nd and 3rd order effects by connecting things that seem vastly disconnected on the surface through notions of intention, probability, and proximate cause
This post made me see luck as a 2nd or 3rd order effect:
life milestone: my dad giving me genuinely warm dating advice β
me: yeah, itβs important to be equals
dad: i donβt think equal relationships work. *both people should feel like theyβre with the better person. itβs important for both people to feel lucky
me: *gasp*
βAnd even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.β
βpg