From: max demian (oikoumenist@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 12 2005 - 17:13:28 GMT
Hi Bill,
Its good to see someone else thats new. Ive only been apart of this
forum for maybe a month now and find that it is a nice place to throw
thoughts and ideas out. Its fun.
Im glad you have been able to use Pirsig in your masters thesis. A similar
thing happened to me. After reading ZMM, I found ideas that really resonated
within me. I was able to use them as a spring board for my thesis in
literary theory.
I wonder what it means when one day I love my computer and the next am so
pissed I would gladly accept a computer virus that would fry it up and put
me out of my misery. I would think that its virtue is in its production.
Glad youre here,
Max
(By the way, last night I was at a hockey game with my wife and parents
where I heard a rap song that I hadnt heard for years. It reminded me of
high school, but I couldnt remember who sang it. Then I though that if I
put it out of my mind it would come to me. Sure enough, ten minutes later it
came to me like a bolt of light. Thanks Pirsig.)
>From: MultisPostAnnis@aol.com
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: MD Lateral Drift
>Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:30:31 EST
>
>I'm new to this list. I've read most of ZMM and have started Lila. I was
>struck by many passages in ZMM, and ultimately used one as the basis for a
>master's thesis hypothesis. The subject matter was software quality, or,
>more
>specifically, end-user determinants of software quality. This ZMM quote:
>
>"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any
>other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it
>disturbs
>you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”
>
>...was morphed into this hypothesis:
>
>"An end-user's quality rating of a software product will be positively
>proportional to the level of tranquility its use produces within the
>end-user."
>
>More recently, I've used another ZMM quote as the inspiration for the name
>of a second home that I own up in Maine, "Lateral Drift" [vrbo.com/42141]:
>
>"...the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of
>expanding
>the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift
>laterally
>for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the
>roots of what you already know."
>
>We'll eventually retire there, and I rent it out part of the year in the
>meantime.
>
>I thought this audience might be about the only one that might appreciate
>these anecdotes.
>
>Bill
>
>
>
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