George Bernard Shaw – Jonathan Liu

Description Versus Prescription

Posted on September 11, 2020 / Updated September 11, 2020 by Jonathan Liu

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” is one of my favorite George Bernard Shaw quotes. We think that communication is happening every time two people speak to one another, when that is far from the case. From the Latin communicare (“to share”), communication is the act of …

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Write It Down

Posted on August 13, 2019 / Updated September 18, 2019 by Jonathan Liu

George Bernard Shaw supposedly claimed to have built an international reputation by thinking a mere once or twice a week, so I’ve tried to do the same. There’s not much else to do on the subway anyway. On occasion – while thinking, an idea would appear. For the longest time, I would admire it in …

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