You made 2025 better. I’m looking forward to 2026. I was watching you draw in a chat. It was a long beautiful video but I can’t find it. I believe it was with an artist in the UK. Can you help me find it so I can finish watching? I was really loving it.
Brilliant observation about the duality of Socrates' legacy. The insight that "no amount of smarts can save you if you are also equally insufferable" is something Ive been mulling over for years when reading about brilliant minds who created enemies as fast as ideas. Standing there at the actual prison must've hit different than reading the Dialogues in a classroom. I wonder if the hemlock moment was less about the toxicity of his ideas and more about his inability to package them without alienating everyone around him. Sometimes delivery matters as much as teh substance, dunno if Socrates ever figured that out.
That's a great point. It's something I ponder over as well. The flip side is that if he did not refuse to back down and die, he would perhaps not have been memorialized by his students. The impact of that, down to Aristotle and Alexander etc is quite interesting to consider! Maybe he HAD to be this way, bound by the chains of history.
It was interesting to see the definition of the word epiphany today. I have often used that word back in my days of Design Brainstorming. Occasionally, I still use it when I really mean "I have an idea". Sometimes the word fits, mostly for the most difficult design problem solutions, but I need to be reserving it for just those. It's a great word.
Happy New Year, Nishant.
You made 2025 better. I’m looking forward to 2026. I was watching you draw in a chat. It was a long beautiful video but I can’t find it. I believe it was with an artist in the UK. Can you help me find it so I can finish watching? I was really loving it.
Brilliant observation about the duality of Socrates' legacy. The insight that "no amount of smarts can save you if you are also equally insufferable" is something Ive been mulling over for years when reading about brilliant minds who created enemies as fast as ideas. Standing there at the actual prison must've hit different than reading the Dialogues in a classroom. I wonder if the hemlock moment was less about the toxicity of his ideas and more about his inability to package them without alienating everyone around him. Sometimes delivery matters as much as teh substance, dunno if Socrates ever figured that out.
That's a great point. It's something I ponder over as well. The flip side is that if he did not refuse to back down and die, he would perhaps not have been memorialized by his students. The impact of that, down to Aristotle and Alexander etc is quite interesting to consider! Maybe he HAD to be this way, bound by the chains of history.
I love Tom Kane's perfect review of your book!
The best!
It was interesting to see the definition of the word epiphany today. I have often used that word back in my days of Design Brainstorming. Occasionally, I still use it when I really mean "I have an idea". Sometimes the word fits, mostly for the most difficult design problem solutions, but I need to be reserving it for just those. It's a great word.
It is indeed a great word, and I had the sudden idea while typing it that it may be Greek so I checked and... Yes!
Happy New Year to you and your family!
Thanks James!
I'm so glad to hear that, Robin! The chat you're referring to was with Helen Stark, and you can find it on her Substack page!