circuitous definition - Google Search
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circuitous definition - Google Search
- Questions are also indications of directions of curiosity. They remind me of desire paths : pathways in the grass that emerge organically from people's natural patterns of movement instead of prescribed routes. They’re such a wonderfully human example of how we like to follow impulse and intuition to find the most direct (or appealing way) to get s... See more
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
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- Complexity basically means that everything is circuitous and hard to understand. Hard to understand means that the things that lead to the things you want aren't the things you want. They're very complex. So you need to do things like work on vacuum tubes to get to computers because vacuum tubes are in the first computers, even though vacuum tubes ... See more
from Greatness Without Goals by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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Egbert was able to further demonstrate how the word itself has undergone a transformative journey — what linguists call “semantic drift.” It wasn’t so long ago that Americans mostly used “journey” to mean a literal trip, whereas now it’s more popular as a metaphor. Egbert demonstrated this by searching the more than one billion words in a database
... See morefrom Everything Is a Journey Now by Lisa Miller
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In almost every language, “journey” has become a way to talk abstractly about outcomes, for good reason: According to what linguists call the “primary metaphor theory,” humans learn as babies crawling toward their toys that “‘purpose’ and ‘destination’ coincide,” said Elena Semino, a linguist at Lancaster University who specializes in metaphor. As
... See morefrom Everything Is a Journey Now by Lisa Miller
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The straight and narrow path is one of fastidious…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.from Living Presence (Revised): The Sufi Path to Mindfulness and the Essential Self by Kabir Edmund Helminski
- There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or do things they’d miss otherwise.
from On shortcuts and longcuts
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- the journey from information to meaning involves more than simply filtering the signal from the noise. It is an alchemical transformation, always surprising. It takes skill, time and effort, practice and patience. No matter how experienced we become, success cannot be guaranteed.
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- To search is to know that which you seek. The very notion of search requires you to accurately label what you are looking for. Unfortunately, in unknown territory, we don't always know what we are looking for. Navigating unknown territory is an exercise in discovery, not recall.
from Page Not Found by Oliver Hunt
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