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Glockenspiel

noun

a percussion instrument known to be used as a audio cue indicating a transition.

Imagine a “situational thesaurus.” Instead of just unpacking related words, you unpack all the contexts that a word can apply. Examples:

• addle — social media, work, disinformation (dilution from quantity)

• faustian — VR / AGI or e/acc, finance, cloning, influencers, adderall, steroids

• platonic — solids, relationships, education, leisure, cognition

What the hell is “quizenard”?

Seems I hallucinated the word. it does not exist. Well eff that! I’m adding that word to my lexicon.

Unlike other animals, we humans retain what is known as neoteny— mental and physical traits of immaturity— well into our adult years.

Greene, Robert. Mastery - Robert Greene (Kindle Locations 1686-1687). Kindle Edition.