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The language a person adopts affects how that person thinks.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“how long english has been around which is let's say 500 years uh which is not that long like actually uh you know like what you what the language you speak constrains how you think and if you learn a different language uh for example uh someone in chinese we don't have tenses um i don't know if you i i actually didn't know that and i speak chinese”Play from 1:28:50Report a misattribution
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