“Ting the Cook” from the Zhuangzi

I thought this post paired well with "How to Be Useless" from earlier today, which focuses specifically on the Zhuangzi:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29945952

And given that my other recent post was about to-do lists, I thought there was a fun irony here.

I hope it's all right for me to submit two posts in succession from my own blog. I wouldn't have done so if I didn't think this was interesting and relevant to some of the topics that came up today.