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‘The closer you look at anything, the more interesting it gets. But nobody tells you this.’
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
—Marcel Proust
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Before you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent. Do you remember the insights that we... See more
johnsalvatier.org • Reality has a surprising amount of detail
You can see this everywhere if you look. For example, you’ve probably had the experience of doing something for the first time, maybe growing vegetables or using a Haskell package for the first time, and being frustrated by how many annoying snags there were. Then you got more practice and then you told yourself ‘man, it was so simple all along, I ... See more
johnsalvatier.org • Reality has a surprising amount of detail
Marcel Proust once said, “The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”