There’s a concept in mathematics called ergodicity. A system is ergodic when one person’s experience over time matches the average experience across many people at a single moment. Roll a die a thousand times and your average is about 3.5. Have a thousand people each roll once and their average is about 3.5. Time average equals group average.
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What’s Missing Says More: The Semiotics of Omission
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
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