For an idea to resonate, it needs to do the following:

Something in my subjective experience or previous insight connects to the idea in front of me and gives it potency. The connection between two ideas always carries the possibility of a third, new idea.

It moves me through language. I might find the phrasing particularly harmonious, the choice of... See more

“things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life”  — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)

At this point, we’ve gotten really great at “writing it down”

We’ve been trained to take notes, snag photos, and add things to our bookmarks so we don’t forget about them.

The more important question that nobody has bothered to ask is what to do with it all.

Components are ultimately the building blocks of a story, project, or idea, but accumulation... See more