The longer the gaps between our acts of communication get, the bigger is the difference between the person we think we are sending a message to and the person who will actually receive it.
Guerre, Plume, Theatre.
Don't tell me
Tell my ghost
'Cause I blame him
For all I don't want to know
Time is a sentence.
... die Zeit, die wie ein endlos glitzernder Faden durch die Welt läuft, schien mitten durch dieses Zimmer zu gehen und schien mitten durch diese Menschen zu gehen und schien plötzlich einzuhalten und steif zu werden, ganz steif und still und glitzernd, ...
Robert Musil: Die Vollendung der Liebe
General Paper Lot.
The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs that generate data, and clean up data, and plot data, and run statistical models on data. These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually discovered, clearly enough that someone else can discover it for themselves.