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- “Practice” made its way into our language by way of the Greek word praktikē , meaning “active,” and the Old French pratique , which actually means “experience.”
Process, on the other hand, originates in Latin as procedere and in French as proces , which mean something more akin to “a methodical series of steps.” Those steps lead toward something, as... See morefrom Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
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Practice vs. Process
- Flirting is intelligence at its peak because it’s the ultimate spontaneous social situation where you have to delicately balance humor, sincerity, & formality in order to explore unknown territories of conversations using cheeky cryptic language all while performing a vibe check
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- Some might call this concatenation of elements a “vibe”: something that’s difficult to pin down precisely in words but that’s evoked by a loose collection of ideas, concepts, things that can be identified by intuition rather than by a prescribed logic.
from Nameless Feeling — Real Life
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- What the neural network “learns” is emergent rather than deduced. For example, it may notice a pattern that if it’s cloudy, then people are more likely to carry an umbrella. But it would not be able to explain that this is because cloudy implies rain and rain implies umbrella. Instead it effectively identifies a “rainy” vibe through correlations of... See more
from Nameless Feeling — Real Life
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- Metaphors are slippery, like memory. But then, putting things to words is always a translation, an approximation of the thing. There’s perhaps no better reminder of that than our inability to describe the sensation of scent, its transportability, what it feels like and means to us. As Epstein suggests, the mind and memory are equally inarticulable ... See more
from Metaphorically speaking|Dirt by Meg Miller
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Cuando los botánicos recorren los bosques y los prados en busca de plantas, decimos que salen de excursión. Cuando lo hacen los escritores, esa excursión es por las metáforas, que también abundan en la tierra.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
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- ¿cómo puede ser que, de las dos acepciones de la palabra «patético», hayamos elegido pensar siempre antes en la segunda, con todas sus connotaciones negativas, cuando necesitamos precisamente más de lo primero?
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- creatividad (sorkuntza) y bruja (sorgin) tienen la misma raiz. Nuestros ancestros sintieron que el aliento creador humano es femenino. Y lo plasmaron en una palabra: Sorgin. La mujer creadora.
from ¿HACES RUNNING O SALES A KORRER? by Jon Gorroño
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