This is water

This is water

This Is Water is the commencement speech to the graduating class 2005 at Kenyon College by David Foster Wallace.

  • Different belief templates will create different ways of constructing meaning from experience.
  • Different models will construct different meanings from the same data.
  • Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up

Author | Glory Chan

A data analyst and a weekend cyclist. Gruaduate from school of decision science. Interest in how to use data to improve decision making and anything aerodynamic.