a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk covering his face with his hand . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk covering his face with his hand .

The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.

from Robert #Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

#tfw it's been staring me in the face for God knows how long...

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance book cover

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

#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

I'm reminded,...
@psybertronian.psybertron.org @artntrn.bsky.social I didn't know enough about www.hylo.com when #Pirsig & #ZAMM efforts were afoot last year
& I'm still learning
✌️ @tibetsprague.bsky.social
Did I miss suggestions for "Pirsig Community" use before?
'Dovetail' opportunities, maybe?
🙏✊

The A-Z of Code Craft – Q is for Quality Gosh! Where to start with “quality”? Okay, let’s nip this one in the bud. I’m not going to be talking about testing. I suppose an interesting place to start might be with th…

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

#SoftwareDevelopment

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/t...

@psybertronian.psybertron.org Some more 'disparately related reflections", related directly to the what & why #Pirsig "helped me hone", say,...
I mean, learning what others experience, consider, wrestle, wonder,... can "give one permission", say, to "not just give-up, when goings get rough", eh?!

#20

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.

A recommendation by @awellsbury.bsky.social - and a good one at that.

Written as a fictionalised autobiography, Pirsig explores and discusses his concept of Quality…

… and gumption.

#reading #classics #philosophy #pirsig

Question on "Pointless"
#ZMM
#Zen
#Pirsig

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

#books #pirsig #reading #libraries #mustread

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Pirsig

Should anyone be interested in my recollections of Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of ....), I have finally straightened out that on the first page of my website: www.jimostby.com

#Pirsig
#literary

What, Why & How do we Know ? Ostensibly I’m re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle M...

50 Years of Systems and #Pirsig

"Pirsig already explained why and how humans understanding and embodying systems, and not fearing the technology, are what will get us out of this mess, mental and physical, however long it takes."

https://t.co/IGxjCBM0j3

#ZMM50th
The Robert Pirsig Association is planning on marking next year 2024 as the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". So many quality possibilities.
https://www.robertpirsig.org/zmm50th/
#ZMM #Pirsig #MoQ #Quality

The Cycle From 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance... The 1966 Honda Super Hawk featured in Robert Pirsig’s boo...

"Pirsig's book (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) may be more important now than ever." #zmm #pirsig @smithsonian @SmithsonianMag www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/...

What, Why & How do we Know ? Many tweets and memorial pieces coming in, still every 20...

Comment on #Pirsig as a Post-Post-Modernist – ahead of his time. by Foucault Meets Pirsig | Psybertron Asks http://dlvr.it/PHnsVc

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Comment on #Pirsig as a Post-Post-Modernist – ahead of his time. by Psybertron http://dlvr.it/P3Z2nN

What, Why & How do we Know ? Many tweets and memorial pieces coming in, still every 20...

Comment on #Pirsig as a Post-Post-Modernist – ahead of his time. by Janet Abbey http://dlvr.it/P3Z2kK

What, Why & How do we Know ? Many tweets and memorial pieces coming in, still every 20...

Comment on #Pirsig as a Post-Post-Modernist – ahead of his time. by Literary Kicks – Archive Back to 1994 |… http://dlvr.it/P2ZfKY

Read a few #Pirsig obituaries. This @WSJ piece by @jamesrhagerty gets just the right tone. Excellent. www.wsj.com/articles/uneasy-rider-wo...

#Pirsig

What, Why & How do we Know ? Sad to hear of yesterday’s passing of Bob Pirsig, aged 88...

@microphilosophy I know you made brave attempt to give #Pirsig benefit of doubt. Be interested in your take on this http://www.psybertron.org/archives/10727

Alun Rees #Pirsig "I was an experienced dentist [before I understood] the differences between the classical and romantic approaches to life"

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#Pirsig Graduated From Bike To Westsail 32 blog.soundingsonline.com/loose-cannon/2017/04/27/...

What, Why & How do we Know ? It was cringeworthy that so many obituaries, and one-line...

#Pirsig and the “121 Rejections” Mythology http://dlvr.it/P0wtVX

What, Why & How do we Know ? It was cringeworthy that so many obituaries, and one-line...

#Pirsig and the “121 Rejections” Mythology http://www.psybertron.org/archives/10772

What, Why & How do we Know ? Sad to hear of yesterday’s passing of Bob Pirsig, aged 88...

Comment on RIP Robert Pirsig (6 Sep 1928 – 24 Apr 2017) by #Pirsig as a Post-Post-Modernist – ahead of his time. |… http://dlvr.it/P0vp45

Agreed. A great interview with #Pirsig from a decade ago.

What, Why & How do we Know ? Many tweets and memorial pieces coming in, still every 20...

#Pirsig as a Post-Post-Modernist – ahead of his time. http://dlvr.it/P0tskl