Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.... See more
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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblings
Extended Family is important. Why not choose the extended family we bring in?
Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
The difficulty of valuing information.
Useful falsehoods
Example - Energy requirements of communication.