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The fact that this quality cannot be named does not mean that it is vague or imprecise. It is impossible to name because it is unerringly precise. Words fail to capture it because it is more precise than any word. The quality itself is sharp, exact, with no looseness in it whatsoever. But each word [...]

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Everything said is said by someone.
Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, 1999, p. 26.
Everything is said by someone in the expectation of being understood by someone else. Everything heard as being said is heard being said by someone and calls for a response.
Klaus Krippendorff, [...]

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Interruption Marketers spend all their time interrupting strangers, in an almost pitiful attempt to bolster popularity and capture attention. Permission Marketers spend as little time and money talking to strangers as they can. Instead they move as quickly as they can to turn strangers into prospects who choose to “opt in” to a series of [...]

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Each age interprets its universe in terms of what is currently important to it. Ancient animistic people wanting to make sense of the starry sky saw it as a zoo of people and animals—the Hunter, the Swan, the Lion, the Dog. The mechanical age of the eighteenth century bred a mechanistic philosophy; in the [...]

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