metaphors - a love story
you can have a huge fire going but you won't be able to light up a cigarette
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The hard work is to shift our default. To imagine that every incident, story or example is actually a metaphor, and only eventually coming to the conclusion that the specific details are what’s on offer.
Seeking metaphor
The adjacent possible is about taking two seemingly unconnected ideas and metaphorically placing them next to each other to see how they might work together.
Dan Mall • “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall
Are these connections or intersections?
Not sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.
Works for both work and life overall. The power of a good metaphor.
Metaphors are interpreters—what interpreters do for bits and bytes, metaphors do for reality. They translate physical experiences into thoughts, ideas, insights and lessons that can be interpreted and understood, acted upon and shared.
Nietzsche said to "Never trust a thought you had indoors." bc small spaces = small thinking and depression is identical to staying inside all day
Daniel Kazandjian is in Lisbonx.com