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

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


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


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


4. The same words may mean different things to different people.


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

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We’re afraid of being misunderstood. Flattened. Pulled out of context and paraded back like evidence that we’re terrible.

So we pre-emptively sand things down.

We caveat ourselves into invisibility.

We trade the living edge of an idea for something safer, smoother, harder to argue with.

But, all this sanding and avoiding has landed us in a collective... See more

I have been thinking about it a lot lately: do we owe people comprehensibility, legibility, concreteness? May I claim the right to be intangible?

Clarifying often feels like moving further from the initial meaning