In his landmark book during the 1970's, Gerald Weinberg* coined the term "Egoless Programming." Meaning, the only way to make computer code maintainable by OTHERS was to code it w/o one' own ego, and to follow the rules of structure instead.
Rarely has computer programming intersected with Spirituality and Mussar in such a profound way. I would like to take a survey of some classic cases of Ego vs. Egolessness within Classic Jewish Thought.
NB: For a classic Mussar perspective of Ego vs. Egolessness, see the first two chapters of Orchot Tzaddikim.
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* see EG
Gerald Weinberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg
Especially "The Psychology of Computer Programming".
Shalom and Regards,
RRW
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I get confused when someone talks about the "ego."
I have seen books of Musar and chasidut and eastern religions that seems to take the ego to be easily understood.
But to me a self, is utterly mysterious.
Man is self, that
now seems clear. But what is self?
Our orthodox rabbis embraced psychology that promised us a answer for this question.
And we are told, the healthy inner-directed person will really care for others.
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