unexplainable

the things that are hard to explain in words

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

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via haley nahman, beyond explanation

it feels like trying to explain a garden with a calculator

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"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

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Right 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

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Peter Attia: "One of the things about our society that's problematic is everybody wants an elevator pitch for everything." @PeterAttiaMD https://t.co/tCHdZGyT1G

David Perell

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“words do not matter, because meaning is often felt, not said.”

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“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

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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.

Emmett Shear • Tweet

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