unexplainable
alex added 1mo ago
“words do not matter, because meaning is often felt, not said.”
sari added 1mo ago
“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
sari added 2mo ago
- I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
from Tweet by Emmett Shear
sari added 2mo ago
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alex added 3mo ago
"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 4mo ago
sari added 5mo 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 5mo 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 7mo ago