unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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unexplainable
At best, what any of us can hope for with our creative work is to organize, clarify or more clearly convey the unnameable that lives within us.
via Leandra, Cereal Aisle
I like thinking about what comes after all the thinking. When we’re done explaining, categorizing, and solving everything that’s explainable, categorizable, and solvable, what’s left? The best things? The most important ones? This reminds me of Nietzsche’s idea that capturing something in language is the end of our wonder, rather than the beginning... See more
via haley nahman, beyond explanation
it feels like trying to explain a garden with a calculator
"We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else. Perhaps once in a
... See moreRight now the Metalabel squad is in the throes of the creative process of something you’ll see in the Fall. We’re excited about what we’re working on but we’re also in the thick of it. We still don’t know where it will all lead.
Some days the not-knowing is agonizing. The first time I experienced the feeling came while building Kickstarter, and it o... See more
Some days the not-knowing is agonizing. The first time I experienced the feeling came while building Kickstarter, and it o... See more
Peter Attia: "One of the things about our society that's problematic is everybody wants an elevator pitch for everything."
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Zaina Nares
“words do not matter, because meaning is often felt, not said.”
“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1