language vs reality
Sometimes, knowing the name is good enough. Most cognitive biases work that way. Once you find out what availability bias is, you can figure out where you’ve fallen for it. Noticing availability bias without knowing it is much harder. It’s the same for emotions, ideas, design patterns, and specific situations in life. Having a name helps you... See more
Neil Kakkar • Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
availability bias
“Sometimes, knowing the name is good enough.”
These are the terms amateur and dilettante. Nowadays these labels are slightly derogatory. An amateur or a dilettante is someone not quite up to par, a person not to be taken very seriously, one whose performance falls short of professional standards. But originally, “amateur,” from the Latin verb amare, “to love,” referred to a person who loved
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, the influential phenomenological sociologists, have written that our sense of the universe in which we live is held together by conversation. When I say to an acquaintance whom I meet in the morning, “Nice day,” I do not convey primarily meteorological information—which would be redundant anyway, since he has the
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
Culture is a uniquely human trait, and it arises from, and depends on, language. This is the critical connection to the psychedelic state. Human language originates from inner ideation (which can be understood as another term for imagination). It is image-ination, the making of images, the interior representation of something thought or perceived,
... See moreTerence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Ostatnio byłem na Occulture Conference, gdzie poznałem osoby eksplorujące filozofię Williama Sewarda Burroughsa, autora Nagiego lunchu . Burroughs uważał, że ludzkość została uwięziona przez wirusa, którym jest język. Według pisarza istnieje tylko to, co umiemy nazwać – więc język tworzy naszą rzeczywistość.... See more
Scena niezależna rośnie i będzie rosnąć
Learning any language can entail the development of a different ‘way of seeing’ or quality of perception that was not expressed (and is as such ‘unknown’) within our own linguistic context. This ubiquitous truth of language learning – that ‘the limits of our language are the limits of our world’ – becomes even more demonstrably true when studying a... See more
Jacob Kyle • Demystifying Sanskrit
Editing is something most people hate, so it’s worth coining new metaphors (ie: alchemy) to make it more approachable and endurable.
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