Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
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.
Does language influence our thoughts? How can we minimize (or maximize) that influence?
It’s all about asking the right questions
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.
Intuition is compressed knowledge
Oh, I feel this, a lot.
Useful falsehoods
Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language is a mechanism of assembly