Descriptions Aren’t Prescriptions

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Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:

How something appears to you may not be how it is.

What is said or shown may not be all there is.

What is true for me may not be true for you.

The same words may mean different things to different people.

What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is me

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The creation of rules is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve, naturally according to content or need.

Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"

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It is a human trait to organize things into categories. Inventing categories creates an illusion that there is an overriding rationale in the way that the world works.
Surfaces that are "easy to clean" also show dirt more. In reality a surface that camouflages dirt is much more practical than one that is easy to