Language and Thought
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
how can we use language to spread things faster? use language as tool for mind to question itself
Divya Venn • Tweet
This is incredible
Ideas not shared are lost to time
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
Does language influence our thoughts? How can we minimize (or maximize) that influence?
H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.... See more
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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblings
Austin Kleon • KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES
Extended Family is important. Why not choose the extended family we bring in?
if i'm honest with myself
The difficulty of valuing information.
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.
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