Language and Thought
Example - Energy requirements of communication.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
how can we use language to spread things faster? use language as tool for mind to question itself
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.
if i'm honest with myself
The difficulty of valuing information.
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
TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
This is powerfully true and vividly felt.