communication

The Secret Language of Trees via Animated Drawings And Richard Power’s Wondrous Novel

Through charming animated drawings, forestry experts Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard explain how trees communicate with one another. Novelist Richard Powers tells it another way in The Overstory.

10 Ways to Deepen Conversation + the Crap Advice You Should Forget (Celeste Headlee)

We’ve found employing Celeste Headlee’s 10 principles for having a better conversation really DO take the conversation farther. Here they are, including the Crap Advice she advises you forget.

What Writing Scripts for AI Taught Her About Humans and Art

In describing what writing lines for AI like Siri is like, Mariana Lin nails what human to human communication actually does.

Ann Hamilton: ‘How Can Words be Acts of Making?’

At artist Ann Hamilton’s website, we found an extraordinary meditation on words, and the question: “how can words be acts of making?”