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alex added 6d ago
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"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"(James Clear newsletter)
sari added 2mo ago
sari added 2mo ago
what ideas are we missing out on when we can inly tolerate those that can be compressed into bite-sized tweets and TikTok videos.
source: long distance thinking, Simon Sarris
any classification seems to understate what it is
sari added 3mo ago
“I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
phoebe added 4mo ago
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“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
sari added 5mo ago
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires
Alara added 5mo ago
- Many concepts can be explained concisely, in simple language, and we should all strive for clarity. But the aphorism is a mistake, for a number of thoughts approximate the carpenter’s craft, and to meaningfully reveal them requires time and attention. Sometimes these cannot simply be told to another at all, they must be grown. For a topical example... See more
from Long Distance Thinking by Simon Sarris
sari added 5mo ago
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
―Franz Kafka
phoebe added 5mo ago