Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Example - Energy requirements of communication.
Work makes a mockery of freedom.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
A new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that... See more
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
how can we use language to spread things faster? use language as tool for mind to question itself
the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
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.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
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.
Finally, we must do away with far and away the largest occupation, the one with the longest hours, the lowest pay and some of the most tedious tasks around. I refer to housewives doing housework and child-rearing. By abolishing wage-labor and achieving full unemployment we undermine the sexual division of labor. The nuclear family as we know it is... See more
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Damn…
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
The tough thing about getting diagnosed with something later in life is that it makes you question everything that came before it.
TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
This is powerfully true and vividly felt.