Is there a name for this feeling?: "At last!! That puts into words something I've slowly understood over years of fumbling in the dark, an understanding I didn't even think was articulable!" (despite, of course, that if you'd read it years earlier, you wouldn't have understood)
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There's a poignancy to that latter bit: "if only" you'd had that explanation sooner!"…but now if you show it to someone who doesn't understand, they don't get it; and if you show it to someone who does understand, they say "well, right, of course."
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Anyway, I had that feeling reading chapter 4 of Design Unbound, which articulates the seemingly-ineffable posture of design as fluid exchange between designer and context, which has taken years to (begin to) internalize. Wish I'd seen this earlier but prolly wouldn't have helped.
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Probably not an English word, but maybe a German? They have all kinds of words for things we don't.
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I claim that this is really what “learning” is - collapsing through reification an ambiguous, weakly organized web of related words and concepts
As opposed to a superficial, obvious “insight” peddled by a self-styled thought leader, which is called an “epiphony”
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I feel this way about books.
When I get really excited about a book, I know it’s because it was the right time to read it. It’s a magic feeling.
It’s also why most book recommendations (even for great books) are irrelevant unless timing is right.
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I was going to say this, but you put it mych better than I did! (I failed to articulate it and didn’t tweet.) thank you!
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