3 May 2017

• Fait accompli: an accomplished fact; a thing already done.  
• E-mail seems a fait accompli. Resistance is futile. (Cal Newport in Deep Work) 

30 April 2017

• Prophylactic: Intended to prevent disease 
• Mindfulness may have a prophylactic effect: it can strengthen the areas that are most susceptible to cognitive decline. (Maria Konnikova)
• Variegated: Varied; diversified; diverse
• Through modifying our practices of thought towards a more Holmes-like concentration, we can build up neural real-state that is better able to deal with the variegated demands of the endlessly multitasking, infinitely connected modern world. (Maria Konnikova)
• Traipse: Walk or move wearily or reluctantly 
• In the time it takes old detective Mac to traipse around all those country towns in search of the missing bicyclist in "The Valley of Fear", Holmes solved the entire crime without leaving the room where the murder occurred. (Maria Konnikova)

26 April 2017

• Stricture: A restriction on a person or activity
• In the 1920s, at the same time Jung was attempting to break away from the strictures of his mentor, Sigmund Freud, he began regular retreats to a rustic stone house he build in the woods outside the small town of Bollingen. (Cal Newport in Deep Work pg. 106) 

25 April 2017

• Desultory: Lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful.
• Rubin's Twitter's profile reveals a steady and somewhat desultory strings of missives, one every two to four days, as if Rubin receives a regular notice from the Times' social media desk (a real thing) reminding her to appease her followers.  (Cal Newport in Deep Work pg. 66) 

24 April 2017

Fungible: (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind. 

• And even then, the outcome is fungible, as it's not able to separate out, for example, how much value was produced by this frequent, expensive e-mail use to offset some of its cost.  (Cal Newport in Deep Work pg. 55) 
• These insights are often communicated through fungible artifacts, such as journal articles, slide decks, teaching cases or books that practitioners can consume and apply to their specific context. (AMJ) Added 21 April 2019. 
• Can IT jobs replace the lost manufacturing jobs? No, of course not. These are totally fungible jobs. (Added 7 November 2022)

Simulacrum: a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance

• Instead of trying to manage their time and obligations themselves, they let the impending meeting each week force them to take some action on a given project and more generally provide a highly visible simulacrum of progress. (Cal Newport in Deep Work pg. 60)

30 June 2016

• Trojan horse: A person or thing intended to undermine ore secretly overthrow an enemy or opponent.
• Agile is not a Trojan horse for transforming organizations- it's a frontal assault on command-and-control cultures. (Darell K. Rigby) 
•  Egregious: Outstandingly bad, shocking
• People constantly make egregious mistakes in the workplace. (HBR. July-August 2016)
• Rail against: To complain vehemently about someone or something
• Most recently we have seen the societal and political effects playing out in a volatile U.S. presidential campaign railing against a "rigged system" and preying on people's fears.  (Jeff Kehoe) 

19 June 2016

• Morass: Any confusing or troublesome situation
• Imposing order on the morass of HR analytic. (Theodore Kinni)
• Luster: Glitter; sparkle; sheen or gloss
• But most stars who switch firms turned out to be meteors, quickly losing luster in their new settings. (Boris Groysberg)
• Cut and dried: Prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought and discussion
• But these same leaders can find it very uncomfortable to speak up when their concerns are less cut-and-dried or when their organization is hell-bent on pursuing a plan. (Elizabeth Doty)

4 June 2016

• Schmuck: 
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18 May 2016

• Epithet: Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality. 
• He also strongly objected to being called a "management guru"-an epithet often tied to him.  (Manfred J. Hoefle)
• Harried: Feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed.  
• It was organized by the "Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski and the new-media mogul Arianna Huffington, and conceived, Huffington said, to correct a problem that she had perceived in herself and other harried strivers. (Lizzie Widdicombe)
• Titter: To laugh in a restrained, self-conscious, or affected way, as from nervousness or in ill-suppressed amusement. 
• Brzezinski added, to titters, "You're not going to think 'monk' when he walks on stage!" (Lizzie Widdicombe)

13 May 2016

• Southpaw: A person who is left-handed
• The Hyderabad born southpaw addressed his fans by posting a video on his Facebook account in which he asked them not to believe in those videos. (Dawn) 
• Brown-nosing: To curry favor; behave obsequiously 
• Although some people have a natural passion for it-namely, the extroverts, who love and thrive on social interaction, many understandably see it as brown-nosing, exploitative, and inauthentic. (Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino, Maryam Kouchaki) 
• Ipso facto: By the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed
• When one says that a statement was recorded under "duress" then it also means ipso facto that the contents of the statement will be false. (Moeed Pirzada) 

10 May 2016

• Elided: Censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.
• The Saudis themselves have previously called for the release for the redacted pages. (Nytimes)
• Trope:  Conducive to moral or general well-being; salutary; beneficial
• Whenever a wholesome thought arises acknowledge it. (Thay)
• Disavowing: 
• pso facto: By the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed
• When one says that a statement was recorded under "duress" then it also means ipso facto that the contents of the statement will be false. (Moeed Pirzada) 

4 May 2016

• Precept: A general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought. 
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• Humdrum: Lacking excitement or variety; boringly monotonous
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• Loony: A mad or silly person
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3 May 2016

• Commiseration: To feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity  
• Life is too short for commiserations. (Dawn) 
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• Briny: Salty; Ocean
• They would live out their days in briny bliss, free from the tank that bound them. (Rachel Riederer) 
• Insentient: Without sensation and feeling; inanimate
• Thinking of animals as insentient automaton may make it easier to stomach breeding chickens so breast-heavy that they can't stand up,or keeping social animals, such as orcas, isolated in tiny corrals. (Rachel Riederer)
• Hubris: Excessive pride or self confidence; arrogance
• Other risks won't stem from technological hubris. (Robinson Meyer) 

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1 May 2016

• Briny: Salty; Ocean
• They would live out their days in briny bliss, free from the tank that bound them. (Rachel Riederer) 
• Insentient: Without sensation and feeling; inanimate
• Thinking of animals as insentient automaton may make it easier to stomach breeding chickens so breast-heavy that they can't stand up,or keeping social animals, such as orcas, isolated in tiny corrals. (Rachel Riederer)
• Hubris: Excessive pride or self confidence; arrogance
• Other risks won't stem from technological hubris. (Robinson Meyer) 

30 April 2016

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29 April 2016

• Nugatory: Of no value or importance
• The cardinal points used to be firmly located in the English-speaking world, but now the needle swings erratically to less developed markets like ours, where the numbers are nugatory. (Pratik Kanjilal) 
• Strychnine: A bitter and highly poisonous compound obtained from nux vomica and related plants.  
• Here, an English language book, which is well received might sell only 2000 copies, a figure which would cause a London publisher to reach for the strychnine. (Pratik Kanjilal) 
• Evanescent: Vanishing, fading away, fleeting 
• The second is in that evanescent moment after a group has formed but its hierarchy has not. (Jerry Useem) 

27 April 2016

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• Discursive: Passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
• This meditation is not a discursive reflection on a philosophy of meditation. (Thay)
• Gnomic: Accustomed, used to 
• Last week, as I am wont to do, I jetted over to London for 36 hours to interview a CEO of a multinational company.  
• Inscrutable
• Expeditious: Characterized by promptness; quick
• Pakistan has a long agenda of reforms that would entail better security, law and order, an expeditious system to adjudicate disputes, a modern civil service, an efficient infrastructure and skilled labor force. (Dr. Ishrat Hussain) 
• Avulse: To pull off or tear away forcibly
• The lights of the tent became cloudy and his eyes started rolling, he tried to scream but he felt his tongue had been avulsed from the root. (Siraj)

26 April 2016

• Discursive: Passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
• This meditation is not a discursive reflection on a philosophy of meditation. (Thay)
• Gnomic: Accustomed, used to 
• Last week, as I am wont to do, I jetted over to London for 36 hours to interview a CEO of a multinational company.  
• Inscrutable
• Expeditious: Characterized by promptness; quick
• Pakistan has a long agenda of reforms that would entail better security, law and order, an expeditious system to adjudicate disputes, a modern civil service, an efficient infrastructure and skilled labor force. (Dr. Ishrat Hussain) 
• Avulse: To pull off or tear away forcibly
• The lights of the tent became cloudy and his eyes started rolling, he tried to scream but he felt his tongue had been avulsed from the root. (Siraj)
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25 April 2016

• Sublimate: To divert the energy of (a sexual of other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral or aesthetic nature or use. 
• The worst experience endured by people in the Middle East and North Africa, had to be expiated on surface instead of being pent up or sublimated. (Stuart Schaar) 
•  Polemic: A controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine , etc.
•  On an occasion like this I have no appetite for polemics. (Saul Bellow) 
• I have not included letters that are wholly technical and polemic. 
• Unswerving: Not turning aside, constant 
• Chris Hann, who knew Gellner, in his obituary in The Independent (London), 8 November 1995, pointed out that 'his scorn for western Marxism was unswerving'. (Stuart Schaar)

24 April 2016

• Surmise: 
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• Obviate: Remove a need or difficulty 
• Does it obviate all the decsions analysis courses?