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The vast majority of people on this site love being shown either a new idea or an old idea expressed differently.

These diagrams provide that little shot of that creative emotion which is fun.

Don't know how useful it is but I "feel" like I learn something from either the way a concept has been portrayed or a genuine new juxtaposition of ideas.

It would be interesting to feed these descriptions to DALL-E and see if it comes up with better diagrams.

I enjoy the overall simplicity and the 'devious' pressure to comprehend the connection between the text and graphics.

What is the copyright on these? (On phone and there is nothing else on the page)

Also interested if these are free-use

Very difficult to guess the description based on the image.

But is it easy to see the concept of the description in the image? I believe that is the goal. Some worked better than others, but I think most of them are pretty good.

Are there any descriptions that I'm missing? Why is this one called "Distraction" https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/5aec677df005411b1a6c794...

I see it as, I have a single topic on the left, then I get distracted by another, so my attention splits.Those rabbit hole introduce more distractions, and so on...

I'm guessing because you start one with one big thing on the left and end up with 16 small things on the right. So now it's harder to figure out which ones are important or valuable, etc. so you're more likely to spend time distracted by things which are not as important or valuable. But, who knows?

You set out to change a light bulb and end up working in the garden. Leaving so many tasks unfinished on the journey.

You set out to do something for an hour. You're distracted by something else, taking away a portion of that hour. More distractions, more time taken away.

Replace time there with attention, resources, focus, effort, etc.

That's the thing with these abstract images, possibilities are endless.

On the same note, please buy my abstract white painting. It's only a million. ;)

These are well done, but they're hardly universally agreeable sentiments. I find too many of them trite, self-defeating or otherwise disappointing, eg advice for defectors, rather than cooperators (in a Prisoners Dilemma sense).

> What you can imagine, depends on what you know

Overlapping circles is such an elegant way to show that.

I like the "Cover, Story" one

These are like riddles. Very neat.

Fantastic. Some are very clever.

Good stuff

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