Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
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…
it seems that I’ll probably succeed financially a little less
Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
This shouldn’t be true. Success financially should be a choice, not an outcome.
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.
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.
Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
Nicole Fenton • Words as Material
Language is a mechanism of assembly
Believing in magic can be an irresponsible thing to do if it leads you to disengage from your material responsibilities– but if you’re a responsible person trying to get meaningful work done, and there’s a real possibility that something wonderful could happen and make everything tremendously better, it’s worth making a little space for, isn’t it?
if i'm honest with myself
Be magical
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
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
Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship.