At our last meeting, I let you know that there was something new
posted on my “site” at The Well: a short piece called
“Why Do Anything?”  And now there's another new
document there; this one's called “How to Decide What to
Do.”

More precisely, all that's newly available is the first little
piece of “How to Decide What to Do”: its
Introduction.

As you might expect from the titles, telling the
reader how to decide what to do is a bigger
undertaking than just explaining why one ought
to do anything at all.  (It might even amount to a whole
book.)  That's why I decided to post it in pieces, rather
than make you wait until I've completed the whole thing.

Now here's the part where I tell you where to go.  This
link

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/philosophy/phil-index.html

will take you to my newly expanded “index” of
philosophical writings.  From there, one more click will
procure you the Introduction.

You remember that I have a "home page" at The Well,
right?  Just in case the URL is not at your fingertips, here
it is:

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/index.html

There've been some changes there.

There's a whole new Category, called "Philosophy".

And there's more!  Therein, you will find a file, in PDF
format, titled "Why Do Anything?".

And what's that about?  It's about a page long.

Oh, you meant "What is its subject matter?"  Well, see
now, its title is ambiguous.  If you read it quite literally,
you might expect the subject matter to be something like "What
counts as a good reason for doing anything?"  (Well, you might
expect that if you had a philosophy degree.)

Okay, so what's the other meaning for the title "Why Do
Anything?"  That would be something like
"Why do we do anything?"

But I'm not going to recap the whole content here; this is only
a teaser.  Its purpose is to motivate you to go read the PDF
file itself.  If you want to jump directly to it, here's a
link for that:

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/philosophy/why-do-anything.pdf

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