<story><title>On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)</title><url>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c141charlie</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a section in this book that discusses the inability of a narcissist to fix a motorcycle. As a software engineer with narcissistic tendencies, that section really struck a nerve, and inspired me to dive way deeper into our systems and try to understand &amp;quot;what where they thinking&amp;quot; when working in a legacy code base someone else designed. This curiosity has led to several aha moments that I would have prematurely dismissed as an idiotic code base designed by idiots had I not spent the time to try and understand it.</text></comment>
<story><title>On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)</title><url>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>People complain about this book a lot but I enjoyed it for the most part. Having no philosophy background, I generally struggled through some of his more academic points though.&lt;p&gt;But I generally enjoy books that have &amp;quot;quotable wisdom&amp;quot; in the narrative. One of the quotes that has stuck with me the longest is from this book:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The place to improve the world is first in one&amp;#x27;s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.&amp;quot;</text></comment>