Earlier this year, Robert Pirsig died at the age of 88.New York Times | Here’s his obituary from the Times, which includes a photo of him taking a wrench to his motorcycle. He was the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (hereafter ZMM), a landmark book of the 1970s. By chance, I had picked it up once again a few weeks before his death.