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In contrast to everyday human language, Harari mentions in his book Sapiens the language and thinking of administrators (which I am!) and bureaucrats.
- Gossip-theory says that the human language feels like it developed especially for “gossiping”, for exchanging intel about people. 5b1b-gossip-theory-says-that-the-human-language-feels-like-it-developed-especially-for-gossiping
Languages like administrative, bureaucratic, legal, mathematical, computer science etc. language feel totally different than natural language. We had to invent, design these in order to describe systems not occurring in our natural habitat, where we mostly needed to be concerned about botanical and social information.
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- Nemeth-Braille is a specific form of Braille writing, developed to transcript mathematic language to Braille. It was developed by a descendant of Hungarian emigrants and I didn’t even know about it!
- I should start a collection of “mighty Hungarians”.
- We did so much for science (is the highest rate of Nobel-prizes per capita true or an urban legend? I need to check), but most success came from Hungarians who left the country. (Like some of our latests: Katalin Karikó and Ferenc Krausz.) Such a shame! And must be a studied phenomena - why Hungary produces excellent minds and then don’t let them blossom at home?
- How does the “Hungarian wit” present itself in me?
- I consciously searched for a reference style that puts family name first to use it in my ZK, because this is how we Hungarians have our name order
- I should start a collection of “mighty Hungarians”.
- I usually introduce myself as an administrator who has writing as a hobby. If I go one round further, I mention my Kindergarten teacher diploma that I never deployed in practice (except hosting in-house trainings at work). Only if I go one more round further do I mention that I have an unfinished CS and Economics education, but I usually add that my biggest take from uni was my husband. So when I already worked for a while with our volunteer group and I casually sent an .md file (of an article I drafted in Obsidian), our group moderator with an IT job was astonished that I know the markdown language. And I was like… yeah? My writing software uses that? And it’s not that big of a deal? I also know some basic html, just enough to format a blog post on old platforms? It’s not rocket science, right? Turns out, it kinda is. :D I don’t give enough credit for myself for “having an administrator brain” as Harari says.
- It took me a while to “crack the code” on Luhmann’s folgezettel logic, but I thoroughly enjoyed the process of properly understanding it.
- I wonder if part of why I felt drawn to Luhmann’s stuff is because I also have an administrator brain like he did.
- Beside the fact that Zettelkasten echoed the workings of my neurospicy brain.
- When people sent me Charlie Kirk’s “MRS diploma” comments, freshly discovering the term in the wake of Kirk’s death, I was like… yeah, I heard it a gazillion times following the Mormon Stories Podcast. (Re: my husband being my best take from uni, hence my unfinished CS and Economics education being an MRS diploma.)
- Mormon missionaries targeted me after the death of my mother so over the following years I developed a special interest in Mormonism and the exmo sphere.