Language and Thought

Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have

“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

WORLDBUILDING: Multiplayer collaging the future

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Perhaps I could lean into my weirdness and curiosity, and earn a living from a small group of similarly curious weirdos. It felt like the permission slip I needed to give it a shot.

All That Remains

Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy

H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.

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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?

Mentors and friends have always warned me that employers will never care about you.

But what if that’s a story we decided was true, one that doesn’t have to be?

Alicia Bonner • Why do you work?

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.

I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?

Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78

Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.

Self-promotion makes me uncomfortable.

Maybe because I (read: most women) am not really great at it?

Or because I never want to sound sales-y.

Or because with software, it's always easier to justify tossing in one more feature than exposing our work to criticism.

A moodboard for people who hate self-promotion

Oh, I feel this, a lot.

every failure is my fault and it’s up to me to fix those failures

Leo Guinan • The Biggest Obstacle To Scaling Creativity

Useful falsehoods

This viewpoint may be overly ambitious, and may even — horrors! -- be somewhat wrong, but I have observed that many good ideas start out by claiming too much territory for themselves, and eventually, when they have received their fair share of attention and respect, the air clears and it emerges that, though still grand, they are not quite so grand... See more

Douglas R. Hofstadter • Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Need to remember this