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

“Governing [ourselves] is like cooking small fish.” — Lao Tzu, paraphrased.