language is power
Absorb or create a critical vocabulary
If you don’t have any vocabulary for a medium, then the film or song or dish simply appears as a blur of impressions, it’s hard to draw lines and isolate the particular areas and causes of enjoyment. So, having a better vocabulary for a given medium doesn’t just make you sound smart, it increases the resolutio... See more
If you don’t have any vocabulary for a medium, then the film or song or dish simply appears as a blur of impressions, it’s hard to draw lines and isolate the particular areas and causes of enjoyment. So, having a better vocabulary for a given medium doesn’t just make you sound smart, it increases the resolutio... See more
Sasha Chapin • How to Like Everything More
And it likely isn’t a coincidence that the category leader of a hyper technical category has a tech oriented name. “Claude” et al make the technical feel less threatening, but the threat is also tied to perception of capability
Stratscraps v167.
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
Is it clear to you when a trend forecast is coming from amateurs versus the professionals?
ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right momen... See more
ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right momen... See more
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Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more
Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
❤️ Three things to love and learn:
🐣 Name something into existence. Not just a new word. A genuinely useful, helpful idea. I get that’s easier said than done. But nobody else is looking.
🙃 Do it playfully. ‘Repacking area’ would have been useful but dull. Recombobulation is joyful and 🔥
Don’t make a big fuss about it. Just quietly put it out there ... See more
🐣 Name something into existence. Not just a new word. A genuinely useful, helpful idea. I get that’s easier said than done. But nobody else is looking.
🙃 Do it playfully. ‘Repacking area’ would have been useful but dull. Recombobulation is joyful and 🔥
Don’t make a big fuss about it. Just quietly put it out there ... See more
For an idea to resonate, it needs to do the following:
Something in my subjective experience or previous insight connects to the idea in front of me and gives it potency. The connection between two ideas always carries the possibility of a third, new idea.
It moves me through language. I might find the phrasing particularly harmonious, the choice of ... See more
Something in my subjective experience or previous insight connects to the idea in front of me and gives it potency. The connection between two ideas always carries the possibility of a third, new idea.
It moves me through language. I might find the phrasing particularly harmonious, the choice of ... See more
Mastery of language enables one to influence the sea of consciousness (starting with your own) and consciousness is the base layer of reality, which means the more you can shape it, the more you can enact magick (which is simply sculpting reality to your will) and the only reality-sculpting worthy of a human life is an egoless pursuit of the ultimate romance – that of tickling the divine.