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Nick T
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i’m doing a self-study philosophy course alongside building /amp why? i’ve always pondered questions around ethics, which I believe are especially important for software builders, because if you really nail it you’re potentially creating consequences far beyond just your ARR. having done my first startup I notice the pull towards just thinking about efficiency (grind 16/7, binge huberman, “traction is king”, etc) with purpose often fading in the background as a result. I’m thinking this partial sabbatical of 2-3 months might help me answer the complicated and personal “why” questions and set me up on a good path I’m reading great philosophical works chronologically - I started with Plato’s Republic and just finished Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics after 2 weeks of full time study. I will now continue, likely part time, half and half, filing my learning and interpretations in a cardboard slip box called “Zettelkasten” (look it up, super interesting!)
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coachcoale.eth 🎩
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Love this. What are your key learnings?
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Nick T
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plato / aristotle the idea of personal justice as the balance between your rational mind, spirit (ego) and appetite/desire for pleasure. aristotle expands on this idea a lot and talks about virtuous action as that which aligns what you "ought" to do with what is pleasurable. aristotle serves up the most detailed and dissected explanation for the common cliche of "what you do is who you are" that it really drives home. Nicomachean ethics is a really bland text at first glance, but reading it at a snails pace to understand every detail was a kind of gift I've never received before. meta: write what you read in your own words to really understand what you are reading many many more, but this is more a topic for an essay!
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coachcoale.eth 🎩
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Check out Cicero’s On Dutites. Specifically how he defines the ethical choice vs the expedient one.
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Nick T
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Added to my list, thank you 🙏
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