Entry 27 is out. On quality, what Pirsig meant by it, why Phaedrus breaks trying to define it, and what it might mean for architecture.

https://asupala.me/2026/06/14/entry-27-on-quality/

#quality #architecture #pirsig #zenandtheartofmotorcyclemaintenance #book #writing #blog

In the age of enshittification Robert Pirsig becomes mandatory reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance

#enshittification #pirsig #zen #books #bookstodon

"'It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness… If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don’t talk about it, no one knows it is there."

– Robert M. Pirsig

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Pirsig #RobertPirsig

So, someone took my favourite teen read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and showed how it relates to web design. And since I have been known to design websites, I find this so awesome I can hardly speak.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/what-zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance-teach-web-design/

#webdesign #zen #pirsig

Ah, #Quality, that #Pirsig had so much to say about. Quality applies to *everything*, but particularly to our #software #designs.

#SoftwareDevelopment

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/the-a-z-of-code-craft-q-is-for-quality/

"'It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness… If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don’t talk about it, no one knows it is there."

– Robert M. Pirsig

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Pirsig #RobertPirsig

"In proportion to his intelligence he was extremely isolated. There’s no record of his having had close friends. He traveled alone. Always. Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. People sometimes felt this and felt rejected by it, and so did not like him, but their dislike was not important to him."

Pirsig, Robert M.. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (p. 74). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

#Philosophy #pirsig #zen #motorcycle