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Brett Goldstein 🚀🏠🌴
thatguyBG
Metaphor is one of the most powerful tools for writers, but also technologists.It goes far beyond comparison. @gerogelakoff's "Conceptual Metaphor Theory" is the basis for understanding how every new technology
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Peter G. Klein
petergklein
When an entrepreneur brings new products & services to market, and these turn out to be successful, it may appear she "discovered" something that would have happened anyway. But this
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hayley reads stuff 🌈
haereads
4 of 5 stars to Hollowpox by Jessica Townsendhttps://goodreads.com/review/show/3036894649 I want to write a full length essay on this book but it’s getting late and I have to wake up
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grace / hmm thread 📌
saplcvrs
debunking this to the best of my knowledge bc im bored (open thread) 1) the kitten argument. this was literally just a metaphor, this is just ur fault for sexualizing
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Jennifer
EstrogenTrip
Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neurosciencehttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-011-9134-4#citeas Evidence has long suggested that ‘hardwiring’ is a poor metaphor for brain development. Themetaphor pushes
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kenyatta cheese
kenyatta
I’ve been trying to stop myself whenever I use a war metaphor to talk about countering political or science disinfo/misinfo like it’s a proxy war in Vietnam because it makes
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The Strix
the_strix
A followup to yesterday's thread: Mythos and LogosTwo ways of understanding the world, and why we as humans need both. https://twitter.com/Frevilo1/status/1292452650542407681 Mythos and Logos are Greek words. They both roughly
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Tanner Guzy
tannerguzy
Overheard a show the kids were watching this morning and some Lego villain said, "Let's finally end this once and for all"And it perfectly hit on something I've been noticing
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CH of GIF Tunnel Gang (wooleyduck)🦵😏🦥🤡🤷
wooleyduck
I fully expected to hate Eve. (Especially after S3, I had concerns.)But Eve actually wound up being an incredibly subtly written character, that when you take a step back says
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GeePaw Hill
GeePawHill
Rework Avoidance Theory, or RAT, is likely slowing your team down more than rework ever would. Let's talk a little about that today. I am writing these geekery muses in
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Yet Another Columnist
Sime0nStylites
Another way to think about Brexit (this Brexit) is that it’s a grand experiment in conceptual time travel or perhaps even the creation of an alternative reality. It is a
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Jared Yates Sexton
JYSexton
A bunch of armed Trump supporters gathered outside an Arizona polling center chanting Fox News Sucks is just...it’s way too perfect of a metaphor for where we are and where
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Max Kreminski
maxkreminski
thinking lately about (musical) “instruments” as a design metaphor for digital creative toolswe often assume that we want *general* tools, but instruments are specifically valued for the distinctive “voice” they
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bee 🐝💤
astrobeee
fiery mars energy is so much more external than water mars energy (i’m talking more about like the aries/scorpio relationship but also in general) and i. need that. give. time
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🇬🇧Hugh | Copywriter
hughyu_97
7 Ways to Get People to Believe What You SayWe see 5,000 marketing messages every day...Everyone is making claims, so you need to show a clear signal that you are
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Tanner Guzy
tannerguzy
Finished reading The Horse and His Boy to the kids last night and this was my favorite line of the whole book. It’s when Aslan sneaks up on Bree, who’s
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