language

the power of words: warm outbound > cold outreach

this made me think of that

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in