lol when I first read this I thought it said Left Media Blas and I was very confused
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As a provocation, I’d prefer: No statement / belief is true, including this one. ---- I prefer it when sentences that are grammatically knowledge claims ("X is Y", "X is not Y") are spoken because the speaker actually is making a knowledge claim.... yeah, I cringed when he said fundamental a second time
I feel like the heart of speaking their language while saying more, and not being captured by one's audience is in the Trickster. I can certainly unpack this more, but just the simple statement of it seems valuable right now.... Read the full postMy friend Steph coined the phrase: all ontologies are stupidity complete. Ie. no matter how you understand the world, you can use that understanding to be an idiot. I think it's a similar thing with frames and toolkits.... Read the full post- onAll over-generalizations are harmful, even this one. How can we achieve brevity in communication without clinging to oversimplified models of the world?by
I’m curious if adding language that acknowledges awareness of oversimplification reduces the harm? (Ie “this is one way of looking at it”, “as far as I know”, etc)
You're awesome! I saw a post today where a mom was lamenting her (kindergarten) daughter being referred to as "they" instead of "she" at school. It's happened to me a few times, too, all with the sanctimonious air of a rescuer, and it gives me the ick.... - stephen...
I agree that framing matters a lot here.
In the future, we will…
feels so much more powerful thanIn the future, we might…
I call this the your "avocado eater type". The brown in an avocado is often just cosmetic. Some people can’t eat any of the brown. Some people eat around it. I met a really smart person who never flinched at the brown.... - dave...
Even though I am framing it as "the time is right for that language", I’d still have some "this is unfair, they’re copying our homework" huffing and puffing happening somewhere inside of me if that happened.... - dave...
That is more of a
follow
. Amove
introduces a new thread in a meaning / affect power domain, afollow
is backing up someone’smove
. - renee...
I could have said, people who use language in that way are so fun! (more true) 😂
I agree that these frames are pretty wonky and often misused; I get really annoyed by the way many if not most people use the concept in personal growth culture. Most of the assumptions don’t hold across cultures.... Can you say more about heavy?
I probably agree but I wonder if you can name it more, or what its like
- onDoes anyone else have aesthetic preferences about the 6 digit numbers that get texted, emailed or generated as part of a website sign in process?by
Reminds me of the Bouba/Kiki effect. 6 and 9 and nice round bouba numbers. 1 and 7 are pretty Kiki