Cognitive Revolutions
The DuPont Company's Chart Room
hagley.org
It is easy to take for granted the abundance of organized information we now have access to on demand.
DuPont created this room in 1919 and didn't share details about how they used it in public until 1950.
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people who tell us how to think about a thing
people whose choices (resulting from their thinking) inspire us
"Science also progresses by improved instrumentation and better recordkeeping. Star charts enabled celestial navigation. Gregor Mendel's careful counting of pea plants led to modern genetics. Johann Balmer's documentation of the exact spacing of hydrogen's emission spectra led to quantum mechanics. Things we believed to be beyond human kind—the sta
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Memecoins as a measure of attention (+ popularity)

Mathematics is a an abstraction and it is best broadcast using mathematical notation (a form of writing).
The permanence of sand drawings seem to be the limiting factor here.
Excerpt: “To appreciate how revolutionary Ascher’s perspective was, consider that before her work and that of her contemporaries, scholars generally assumed that only societies with writing could truly practice mathematics. They constrained their investigations of mathematical knowledge to textual sources and ignored many other practices seen in societies with oral traditions that did not use a written language.“

Builders build the future, translators get it adopted
Translators use metaphorical (and literal) language, design patterns, workflows, and even entire products that relate to existing paradigms in order to transition users to new paradigms.