{"id":1761,"date":"2013-07-12T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T08:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/links-7-11-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T08:15:46","slug":"links-7-11-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/links-7-11-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 7-11-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gearpatrol.com\/2013\/07\/05\/best-travel-and-adventure-books-of-all-time\/3\/\">20 Best Travel &amp; Adventure Books &#8211; Gear Patrol<\/a><br \/>      Books to read someday.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/toread\">toread<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/mt\/archives\/2013\/06\/how_making_lead.php\">collision detection: How &quot;making&quot; leads to &quot;fixing&quot;<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;&#8230; there are some interesting differences in the psychologies of making vs. fixing. I&rsquo;ve found it&rsquo;s easier to be daring with fixer projects, because the emotional cost of failure is lower. If I&rsquo;ve got a busted laptop, why not crack it open? What&rsquo;s the worst I can do? Break it? It&rsquo;s already broken! There&rsquo;s also a sort of puzzle-solving pleasure in fixing, a sense of grappling with complexity. You encounter a lot of mystery that you&rsquo;ll never solve and just have to live with, which is what makes repair a philosophically powerful activity. You learn humbleness in the face of intransigent reality.&quot;  Describes my current job perfectly.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/fixing\">fixing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/work\">work<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/purpose\">purpose<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/complexity\">complexity<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Best Travel &amp; Adventure Books &#8211; Gear Patrol Books to read someday. (categories: books toread ) collision detection: How &quot;making&quot; leads to &quot;fixing&quot; Quote: &quot;&#8230; there are some interesting differences in the psychologies of making vs. fixing. I&rsquo;ve found it&rsquo;s easier to be daring with fixer projects, because the emotional cost of failure is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/links-7-11-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 7-11-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}