learning a magic trick teaches that there’s joy in both the initial curiosity and wonder as well as the replacement of mysticism with understanding. i think this is true of many things
recently looked into yoshizawa-randlett origami notation system, the lines and arrows used to diagram different folds. seems so obvious and elegant in retrospect: how do you explain how to fold something new without actually demonstrating it?
an underrated kind of invention is developing a shared language for representing and communicating ideas to make them more legible and extensible