Previously: The Seven Lamps Project (Introduction) In my previous post about the Seven Lamps Project. I mentioned that I’d be reading through each chapter and hopefully summarizing each as a blog post. This is meant to help me absorb and wrestle with the material, since I’m forced to put it in to my own words (other than quotations of course). The end goal is to synthesize this work with the practice of software architecture.| writequit.org
Sertillanges speaking about “hard science” in The Intellectual Life — Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods: The sciences, without philosophy, discrown themselves and lose their direction. The sciences and philosophy without theology discrown themselves more lamentably, since the crown they repudiate is a heavenly one; and they go more irremediably astray, for earth without heaven cannot find the path of its orbit, nor the influences that give it fruitfulness. And a continuation of the previo...| writequit.org
I know I haven’t written much here recently, most of it has been going into my physical commonplace book. I have, however, taken some time to update my quotes page with some of the quotes pulled from books and articles that I’ve recently read. A lot of these get written down in my commonplace book as I draw connections (either in writing or sometimes in drawing) between different sources. Without context or reading some quotes may not be as useful to others, but there is beauty in wordpla...| writequit.org
I think this quote sums up my feelings about social media, and especially about political discussions on social media: … the masters smile at you with superior assurance, but death is in their hearts. They tell you they suited the apparatus to the circumstances, but you notice that from now on they can only suit themselves to the apparatus. — Martin Buber in I and Thou Which happens to coincide with this quote from another book I recently finished:| writequit.org
I’m starting a new project that I expect to take a while. I’d like to do a very careful reading1 of John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture, taking notes with a mind towards eventually synthesizing and harmonizing Ruskin’s views of physical architecture with a conception of software architecture. This isn’t the first time I’ve read the book. My previous reading was casual and mostly consisted of reading it before bed on a Kindle (a poor way to do analysis during reading).| writequit.org
I’ve decided to name this collections of posts (is it really a blog?) “Commonplace Book”. The name came after reading an article about something I have been doing for a very long time, but never realized had an official name and impressive history. If you haven’t heard the term, and don’t care to sift through the Wikipedia entry, Commonplace Books are essentially compilations of knowledge, filled with whatever happens to strike the author at any particular time.| writequit.org