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Iwakan is one of my favorite Japanese phrases. It consists of three Chinese characters, 違 ( i , meaning difference, deviation), 和 ( wa , meaning harmony, peace) and 感 ( kan , meaning feeling, sense), that together form a single word that loosely translates as a ‘sense of disharmony’. In daily interactions, I use the term casually when something fee... See more

In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more

“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 more

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

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.