I also have a pattern of my labors getting increasingly shorter: my first was about 24 hours, my second 16 hours, then 8 hours, 4 hours, 2 hours, 1 ½ hours, and now one hour. But that’s getting ahead of things… As prodromal labor usually does, mine was making me feel pretty...
While Kvothe’s catalogue of this increasingly tedious (and apparently disconnected) array of books primarily works to convey his dwindling enthusiasm for Elodin’s book hunt, the items on this list also tell a story of archival riches, of miscel...
What made it worse was that he ___ to end our relationship in December, weeks ___ both my birthday and Christmas.To cheer me up, my dad ___ me some money for the holidays. I could have done a number of ___ things with it, such as ___ my school loan or adding it to my ...
As we get older, these curve jumps feel increasingly steeper and, because of past successes, more risky (“further to fall”). Don’t rock the boat, don’t risk a good thing, don’t…says our ego from a place of fear. We feel stuck like a bug in amber between the growing “call...
"People think nothing ever gets done here," said a young professional woman. "Sometimes they say, ’Surely you come from Milan. You come from Naples Naples’ "Giovanni del Forno, an insurance executive, told me about his flight home from a northern Italian city, the plane waited on the ...
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But a new model for living is emerging: Some people are increasingly choosing to move from city to city throughout their entire lives, sometimes as ___ as every month.Just ask Alex Chatzielefteriou, who has had a front-row seat watching this evolution ___ and believes in the huge impac...
It is now 1984. It appears IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope to offer IBM a run for its money. Dealers initially welcoming IBM with open arms now fear an IBM-dominated and controlled future. They are increasingly and desperately turning back to Apple as the only...
Anyways, to here and now, my find today is a mighty strange one: a white Chrysler Neon—driver’s passed out. Auto’s butted up against a cactus, looks like the slowest crash ever. No damage. No, wait, the driver’s worse than passed out—his skin is all ‘rashy’ and his legs,...
And the results from cognitive science have only demonstrated it’s worse than we thought. Introspection gets us through day to day activities, and enables language communication. But as a guide to the architecture of the mind, it has a pretty dismal track record. I don’t think the non-...