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"European" Means "I Want To Walk"

When we mistake concrete ideas for abstract ones

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Addison Del Mastro
Feb 27, 2025
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One of the themes I think about a lot at this newsletter is the distance between the way we describe or frame an idea and what that idea actually is, shorn of any sort of attempt to frame/sell/target it. I’m curious about how the same underlying idea can be described in such divergent ways that it takes real analytical effort to even determine that the …

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