There are different ways to respond to a document that contains typos. Sometimes, we don’t see the typos at all. Other times, we see them but don’t seem to register them consciously. This can subtly influence how we feel about the document, the subject, or the author. The typos may assert themselves into our consciousness and […]
Samurai, author, and artist Musashi wrote a list of instructions about 400 years ago. One of Musashi’s list items was “distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.” We often do a poor job of this. What appears at first to be gain turns out not to be, or what seems to be loss is not. Because perceiving patterns seems to […]
In one particular, not commonly applied sense, it’s possible to say that no problems exist in and of themselves. Said a different way, in the absence of a context or a perspective from which it is judged, a situation is “just the way things are.” If a bridge develops cracks and subsequently collapses, this in […]