words matter
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
Richard Fisher • Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene
That’s what “The Great Resignation” did in 2021: it gave a label to the feeling of take this job and shove it , I’m exhausted , even though we now know that the vast majority of people who actually did resign (and not just feel like resigning) were mothers who couldn’t find childcare, service workers finding better jobs, and older workers retiring.
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
the online trend that links all of these disparate digi subcultures together: namecore, AKA the internet’s insatiable appetite for naming things.
Olive Pometsey • Namecore is the trend that unifies all trends
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
Nicole Fenton • Words as Material
If you didn’t want to look closely at your own organizational practices, if you felt uncomfortable about what younger works were agitating for, if you feared changed or anything that usurped your understanding of “how business is done” — Quiet Quitting was the easy answer.
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
Language can contain an entire world, revealing its speakers’ history, values, or pathologies. It can also be obfuscating, diversionary, slippery. Chattiness, with its personality-driven appeals to familiarity, can conceal or elide false promises, banality, emptiness, controversy, and the context of its own existence
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
Our language choices change how we use our time and energy. For every word we use to describe where we want to go, there's another word that we're walking away from.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess
All I know is what I have words for
Start by releasing AI from the limiting mental model of “technology.” Start thinking of AI as talent, not tech.