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Dualities

One of the best ways to revive tired words is to identify the tension they are meant to hold. Best explained through an example, we can use the space between legibility and abstractness. At the edges, it is clear how fundamentally different these ideas are. What is clear is not abstract; what is abstract is hard to understand and pass around easily.

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