words matter
Language works when two people’s associations overlap enough. When their worlds drift too far apart, it falters. We hear the same words, but they spark different images. The conversation comes undone. We think we’re communicating with words, but we’re really communicating our entire worlds.
When a society loses its shared stories, it also loses its
... See moreAnna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
To address a food crisis is to address the relational, recursive density the food is contingent upon. It is to nourish the coming together of intergenerational farming, cooking, healing, holidays, ceremonies, culture, seasons and markets — not to package nutrition bars.
Words are not the things we are speaking about.
Nora Bateson, Combining
I don’t need donations. I do, however, need investments, and investment signifies a commitment to seeing something through, while a donation usually exists as a one-off gift. How is language being used to reprogram the way that we’re putting energy into the world? Money that’s invested is money that’s going to multiply.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
The narrative that art or creativity isn’t real work (as described below) is just one element of a much bigger discussion about what is considered and adequately valued as “real work” in today's society and economic system and what isn’t. As I wrote in Aliveness: Reframing Productivity: “We don’t really think of productivity as a measure of being
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82
On one hand, there is an importance in gaining clarity when you name certain things. On the other hand, there is a danger that you lose all nuance, that you’re basically trying to elevate your personal comments and personal experience by invoking the higher authority of psychobabble
Delia Cai • Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
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
"For example, look at the dominant discourse framing the current state of Work as an “Anti-Ambition” or “Anti-Work” Movement, painting a picture of people simply not wanting to work. In fact, they are not rejecting Work per se. They are rejecting the current system of Work (Work 2.0) and demanding a world of Work anchored in values such as equity,
... See moreRodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🛗✨The Nexialist #0133
we talk a lot about how we need new words to bring people into new worlds. what we've seen with so much of this new corporate press lexicon is new words to keep people in the old world.