meditation on tradeoffs

[brainwane]

[the cost of charisma is information asymmetry with those who meet me]
[the cost of vision is being misunderstood or ignored, Cassandra-style]
[the cost of actually thinking outside the box is having to then squeeze back into it so others can understand & fund me]
[the cost of love is grief]

Comments

[echan]

oh the dreaded box.

I often find that the better I understand something the more difficulty I have explaining it, as though my mental models are too far from box-central.

[brainwane]

Oh yes, THAT reaction .... remind me, have you read Nancy Kress's Beggars trilogy? One of the most "oh THAT would be nice" pieces of tech in the story is a way to put one's mental models on a screen and translate them into someone else's thought-design style, sort of a memex plus a universal translator.

[echan]

That kind of tech would be AMAZING. I have no read those; I've added them to the queue on my ebook reader.