• “Having antifragility is good. Aiming for it is bad.” vs “The way out of mimetic theory is to stop thinking about it so dang much” vs “The single most important thing is not to look for the single most important thing”#

  • Two recent Tyler Cowen guests (Luke Burgis⌝ and Jared Diamond⌝) speaking about the appreciative mindset, plus Antifragile Bad source⌝
  • Some things are understood or achieved by attending through their particulars to the whole they compose. When we turn those particulars into separate objects of scrutiny, we can disrupt the integration that gives them meaning. Language can guide us into that understanding, but cannot substitute for it.
  • There’s something here about pointing at a thing which makes it completely lose the very essence of what the pointed at thing is. Such is the weakness of language.
• “Plans are best fused as a weak resource for ad hoc activity” — Lucy Suchman, Plans and Situated Actions source⌝#