unexplainable
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires
Alara added 9mo ago
alex added 2mo ago
- "But maybe you don’t need to be explainable. Maybe the most interesting perspectives come from being willing to occupy a difficult-to-define place, even if it means sacrificing others' understanding of you. The challenge then becomes committing to occupy that place far longer than most feel comfortable — long enough to cultivate a voice out of your... See more
alex added 10mo ago
- björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
sari added 1y ago
- 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 moresari added 10d ago
Peter Attia: "One of the things about our society that's problematic is everybody wants an elevator pitch for everything." @PeterAttiaMD https://t.co/tCHdZGyT1Galex added 11d ago
“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
sari added 8mo ago
- The cure for over-summary, I think, is something akin to cultivation. States and maturity need good growing conditions and time. The wonder we should concern ourselves with: What else has been hidden by summary? What thoughts must we resist abridging? Those giant sequoias echo a reminder to ask ourselves, what are the unseen things today that could... See more
from Long Distance Thinking by simonsarris.substack.com
sari added 1y ago
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
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sari added 1y ago
- 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 ha... See more
from inarticulable knowledge by Ava
phoebe added 1y ago