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Craft and Cognitive Revolutions
Builders build the future, translators get it adopted
Translators use metaphorical (and literal) language, design patterns, workflows, and even entire products that relate to existing paradigms in order to transition users to new paradigms.
The people I admire most have a way of escaping the bubble of culture. Sometimes via religion; sometimes via old books; sometimes via time in nature. Without such an escape, propaganda wins. You stop thinking for yourself. Modern delusions grow into an all-consuming mind virus.
David Perellx.com
an expansion of that twitter thread
David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
Roger's Bacon • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
Craft and Cosmic Harmony
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read
Henrik Karlsson • Notes | Substack
"It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential." https://t.co/Ul3gwjTquz
it takes a village(?)
Craft and Product Design
notes on the importance of conviction and clarity of purpose to doing great work