unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
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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
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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Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to l
... See moreAlex Tan • #059 Environment Design
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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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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
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"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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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.
How to Do Great Work
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