Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
- Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
“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; t... See morefrom Words as Material by Matt Felten
Language is a mechanism of assembly
- Self-promotion makes me uncomfortable.
Maybe because I (read: most women) am not really great at it?
Or because I never want to sound sales-y.
Or because with software, it's always easier to justify tossing in one more feature than exposing our work to criticism.from A moodboard for people who hate self-promotion
Oh, I feel this, a lot.
- A new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that turn... See more
from What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
how can we use language to spread things faster? use language as tool for mind to question itself
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
from 100 Little Ideas by Morgan Housel
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
- The ideas aren’t all gold, but they seem to find the people who want them, and they start to give life.
from Resistance and Embracing Your Nature by Nicholas Goodey
Ideas don’t need to be perfect. The ones that are the best find their audience. But only when shared.
- Isn’t that the desire of every heart? To be chosen ever so carefully by a pursuer of authentic beauty? To be cherished and allowed to be as one truly is, as one has been created to be before the pain of betrayal and selfish ambition.
To be known. Chosen. Always cherished. Often reread and appreciated for the unique creative work that it is.
No more.
N... See morefrom In the Quiet Library of the Heart: The Soulful Journey of Being Known by Kelly Gawitt
This hit deep
- Perhaps I could lean into my weirdness and curiosity, and earn a living from a small group of similarly curious weirdos. It felt like the permission slip I needed to give it a shot.
from All that remains
Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy
- “AI will lift the ceiling, leading to more creative outputs made possible by more powerful tools; it will also lower the floor, making it easier for anyone to design and collaborate.”
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
When the gap between the ceiling and flow increases, the way to prevent unrest is by adding more steps between. It’s important to see clearly how to level up to the ceiling, and not only enable people who have the ability to make the leap between the existing steps. More people being able to do something shouldn’t threaten the existence of anyone currently doing the thing.
- This viewpoint may be overly ambitious, and may even — horrors! -- be somewhat wrong, but I have observed that many good ideas start out by claiming too much territory for themselves, and eventually, when they have received their fair share of attention and respect, the air clears and it emerges that, though still grand, they are not quite so grand... See more
from Analogy as the Core of Cognition by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Need to remember this