17 April 2016

• Stymied: A situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it. 
• These efforts have largely been stymied, in part because of a 1976 law that gives foreign nations that gives some immunity from lawsuits in American courts. (Mark Mazzetti)
• Distended: Increased, as in, volume, size, etc. 
• He had been housebound one day with asthma, on a rainy and distended morning, apparently through some of his father's promotional materials.  (David Foster Wallace)  
• Automaton:A mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot 
• It's also worth keeping in mind that your goal with productivity porn shouldn't be to transform yourself into a hyper efficient automaton who can take an ever larger piles of work. (Daniel Mcginn)