Serendipitous, I recently wrote about my controversial interpretation of wu wei, which, in modern terms, is erasing effort by leveraging habits and other automa

Serendipitous, I recently wrote about my controversial interpretation of wu wei, which, in modern terms, is erasing effort by leveraging habits and other automatisms. If you have to be conscious about it, you’re doing it wrong. Nice to see Lao Tzu quoted in a post about (non-)effort. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267098 “Governing [ourselves] is like cooking small fish.” — Lao Tzu, paraphrased.