unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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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
At best, what any of us can hope for with our creative work is to organize, clarify or more clearly convey the unnameable that lives within us.
via Leandra, Cereal Aisle
becoming a [computing-internet-creative] [researcher-artist-technologist-???]
(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)
(clearly still searching for a term that feels right, or maybe I don’t need just one term and should embrace these multiplicities?)
Spencer Chang • towards flight: a new chapter
you actually don't need everyone to understand you or what you do and you're probably working on something too safe if they all easily do. your knowing you don’t need them to understand is also exactly what makes them want to
Molly Mielketwitter.com"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)
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