Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
Work makes a mockery of freedom.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Intuition is compressed knowledge
something my six year old said today:
a tongue has no bones but it can break hearts
a tongue has no bones but it can break hearts
sari azout • Tweet
A scrub is a player who is handicapped by self-imposed rules that the game knows nothing about.
visakan veerasamy • a matryoshka of possibilities
Most rules aren’t actually rules, they are illusions we create for ourselves.
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Ideas are most valuable when shared (AND ACCEPTED) - Twitter bad example, because of the second part
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
every failure is my fault and it’s up to me to fix those failures
Leo Guinan • The Biggest Obstacle To Scaling Creativity
Useful falsehoods
It’s possible to paint an dishonest picture of reality without telling a single lie.
if i'm honest with myself
The difficulty of valuing information.
Perhaps I could lean into my weirdness and curiosity, and earn a living from a small group of similarly curious weirdos. It felt like the permission slip I needed to give it a shot.
All That Remains
Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy