Language and Thought

Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have

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.

All That Remains

Sometimes we still need permission in the permissionless economy

every failure is my fault and it’s up to me to fix those failures

Leo Guinan • The Biggest Obstacle To Scaling Creativity

Useful falsehoods

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.

Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs

Intuition is compressed knowledge

An idea kept private is as good as one you never had.

Ideas not shared are lost to time

Mentors and friends have always warned me that employers will never care about you.

But what if that’s a story we decided was true, one that doesn’t have to be?

Alicia Bonner • Why do you work?

Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.

Bob Black • The Abolition of Work

something my six year old said today:

a tongue has no bones but it can break hearts

sari azout • Tweet

I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?

Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78

Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.

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

Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants

how can we use language to spread things faster? use language as tool for mind to question itself