Cheng Peng
@supermiemie
Cheng Peng
Many ideas are provisional: they have yet to be fully grasped, made explicit, connected to what they should be connected to, had all their components implemented, carved at the joints, made available for use, indexed. Many important ideas are provisional. Playing with provisional ideas helps nurture them.
Please don't throw your mind away
Since philosophical writing is tied in with the art of living, this course starts by delving into the mindset of an Examined Writer, and how to cultivate the clarity required for the craft.
The Examined Writer
Fundamental skills like writing or creating needs to be tied to the way of living instead of just something separate
Intelligence and thought are things to be found both in and around the self. “Each place is a unique state of mind,” Abram writes. “And the many owners that constitute and dwell within that locale—the spiders and the tree frogs no less than the human—all participate in, and partake of, the particular mind of the place.”
Jenny Odell • On how to grow an idea
Conversation is like making pasta the old-fashioned way, except that in conversation what you’re working into form is someone else’s ideas.
Matter
Video games are experts at teaching you the rules of a game and building mastery. If your goal is to relay complex information about how to do some set of tasks for an end goal (aka. all of healthcare), then there are lots of lessons to learn from games.
Nikhil Krishnan • Video Games x Healthcare
people new to design tend to confuse an idea for the expression of an idea. Ideas are easy, because they don't rely on specifics. Expressing ideas is incredibly difficult, because doing it well requires a deep understanding of the medium that is only possible by having worked in it, such as understanding which methods to use where, identifying subt... See more
Nick Punt • Learning Product Design
we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.
Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
Ideas can feel complete. It's only when you try to put them into words that you discover they're not. So if you never subject your ideas to that test, you'll not only never have fully formed ideas, but also never realize it.
—Paul Graham
—Paul Graham
The Creative Process 5 Steps: 1. Gather new material: - At first, you learn. During this stage you focus on learning specific material directly related to your task and learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts. 2 . Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind: During this stage, you ... See more