To really see
Simon estimated chess masters learn between 25,000 and 100,000 of these chunks during their training, and that learning the chunks was a key element in becoming a first-rate chess player. Such players really see chess positions very differently from beginners.
Nielsen Michael • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
I see chunking like zooming out on a map. If you’re an amateur you’re probably looking at the street view, or maybe a block of a neighbourhood, as you become more experienced, you’re zooming out, as these neighbourhoods seem common, similar to a degree, they become chunks like cities, districts and so on.
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
It’s like what happens to a room during a game of “I Spy”: if your friend spies something red, the red stuff glows.
James Somers • More People Should Write
My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and learned to pick up on their vibes instead.
Many such cases.
Nat Eliasonx.comWhat amazes me is the lack of understanding that a measuring device is another layer between what you see and want to measure. Sure it can be insightful to measure things and understand what they are but the more complex that gets, you're adding more layers to it, essentially widening the gap between you and the thing in question
She quotes Viktor Shklovsky: “habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war... and art exists so that one may recover the sensation of life.” Then she goes on: “ the trick in writing/life... is to figure out how to import a chunk of the past into the present, so your present self can feel all the things you’ve... See more
#198: Trying to see something
I have a feeling, a hunch that when anyone talks about “universe giving you a sign” maybe it’s not just another congnitive function, maybe it’s a real thing.
I was debating whether to visit my friend who’s staying closeby at the moment, it’s his birthday and I had a vague idea of visiting him at his home an wishing him. I wasn’t sure if I should do
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This story about Square shows the kind of scrappiness that helps you become a $41 billion company. https://t.co/Ass9qWQ1Ii
What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that engage us will do so through story, craft, and a deeper and more sophisticated sense of meaning. The creator economy was ultimately driven by content (enabled by ubiquitous access to content creation and... See more
That’s the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it.