unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
sari and
unexplainable
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
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
Peter Attia: "One of the things about our society that's problematic is everybody wants an elevator pitch for everything."
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David Perellx.com
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag.
Very few people understand on any level why they’re able to do what they do. Why their relationship works. Why they’re good at their job. Why they’re happy. I remember Helena Fitzgerald writing that people make more art about sadness because it’s so much easier to analyze than happiness, and that continues to ring true to me. It’s really, really... See more
Ava • inarticulable knowledge
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.