unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
sari and
unexplainable
Why are we drawn to cheap, re-usable, and safe language? The pressure to use modular Swedish furniture is similar to the pressure online writers face. We want quick results, we cushion our words, and we crave to be accepted.
IKEA Words: How Not to Furnish Your Digital Home
any classification seems to understate what it is
“The next _____”
“[existing thing] (eg Uber) for x”
Almost always wrong and uninteresting
Build something that can ’t be easily analogized
build something you can't easily put into words
"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)
“I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
“When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not go... See more
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
New discoveries often have to be conceived initially as variations of existing things,
even by their discoverers
, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.
even by their discoverers
, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.