language is power

well-arranged words rearrange reality.

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

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

❤️ 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

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