Zen and the art of (Simulink) software maintenance.
call for help.. (and a long post) As Rob Pirsig had said, the mind is a bundle of ghosts, ideas that exist on their own accord, evolve over time and help or hurt us. Newton's laws, common sense, and the golden rule are some of the best. They are reinforced by the affirmation from repeated experiments or experiences and by the social rewards, cooperation they enable. But there are others.. the wretched ones.. which cause the mind to go out of balance and lose its connection with reality, to lose its calm and dive into spirals of anger, hatred, doubt, cynicism, conspiracy theory, prejudices, inferiority or supremacy complexes.. the list goes on. In some sense.. the mind can become infinitely more complex than the reality it deals with.. and therein lies the rub. To be effective, the mind needs a system to reign in or weed out undue complexity and biases and have a clear north star, or values in Pirsig's words that guides its quest to make sense and forge meaning out of living.