Aspirational Naming Philosophy is a battle against bewitchment of our intelligence by language Wittgenstein Language is a strange thing. There are words with multiple meanings, in some cases even words with opposite meanings to themselves: contronyms, such as sanction, oversight, dust. Despite this we are generally pretty good at figuring out the meaning of even […]
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Things November 2022: Spooky
This edition of things accidentally gained a spooky theme and almost came out in October! Almost. Learning from the best vs. the worst You can learn how to do something from a good example, or how not to do something from a bad one. Each method of learning has its advantages, and some things lend […]
What just happened? You may have noticed that Things posts/emails slowed in frequency over the years (from weekly to monthly to sporadic) and more recently had effectively stopped! There’s a whole aspect of this that I plan to unpack later involving my levels of personal creativity and motivation. I posted in August 2021 that I […]
Road Diet If expanding or adding roads induces more people to drive and so creates worse overall flow, does it follow that reducing or removing roads could improve it? In some cases, yes. (Incidentally, that’s on Kottke.org, which you should definitely follow if you like Things, since it’s the same sort of idea but better). […]