unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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unexplainable
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
Articulating ideas as simply as possible is attractive, not least because getting people to agree with us is attractive. But we have a tendency to overrate ideas that can be shared easily, with the most apparent advantages. By constant simplifying, we may be lulled into abridging our own ideas a little too much, and sooner or later our audience—or... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
Analogies are a poverty of language
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“The next _____”
“[existing thing] (eg Uber) for x”
Almost always wrong and uninteresting
Build something that can’t be easily analogized
Patrick OShaughnessytwitter.combuild something you can't easily put into words