Concept handles, after Alexander
How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
Benjamin Santos Gentaaeon.co
When you see things that others don’t yet perceive, sharing your vision requires finding a way to get others to re-create those things in their own heads. A mathematical definition serves this purpose. It provides detailed instructions allowing others, starting with things they are already able to see, to mentally construct those new things.
David Bessis • Mathematica
Naming is the art of describing a collection of ideas in an accessible and memorable way.
Rohit Bhargava • Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future (Non-Obvious Trends Series)
- “When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything... See more
James Somers • More People Should Write
