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Monday, February 17, 2025

📝 Ephemeral Notes​

  • #til2025 Togs Paradox
    • Products aiming to simplify a task for users tend to create the need for new and more complex tasks
    • An explanation as to why user requirements are always changing as the product is being delivered
  • #til2025 Rubbing mud
    • MLB doesn't use brand new baseballs, they prep the ball with mud to remove the sheen on the leather
    • A special variety of muck was discovered by Lena Blackburne in Burlington County along the Delaware river was used to prep the balls that had enough texture and didn't turn the balls black. It is still being used today after 75 years
    • The location of the muck hole is a secret to this day https://baseballrubbingmud.com/
    • A paper on the mechanism of rubbing the mud https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413514121
  • #til2025 Whorfianism
    • Also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, is the idea that language can shape the way we think
    • A controversial hypothesis that states that the structure of the language can affect how the speaker of that language understand the world
    • An example is Eskimo has many more words for snow, and that is related to their environment
  • #til2025 Snowclone
    • A cliched phrase where one or more words can be substituted to express a similar idea in a different context
    • Derived from the journalistic cliche that referred to the numerous number of words the Eskimos have for snow
    • i.e. The mother of all pizzas (based on the phrase the mother of all battles)
    • i.e. X is the new black
    • i.e. To X or not to X
    • i.e. Keep X and carry on
    • i.e. XaaS

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