And so I kind of like how you can take any of these questions, the way that water will compress if it's a giant ball of soup being contracted by gravity, like how the temperature and pressure will relate to each other as the sphere of soup collapses, which is as impractical a question as there is.But like those are the same temperature and pressure relations that you use if you're trying to figure out how fluid will behave in pipes or do some serious engineering
And the Victorian mourning rituals, which were very elaborate and acknowledged that adjusting to loss takes a lot of time, contracted , and some of them were abandoned, mostly because so many people died all at once.And so for the rest of the 20th century, we were watching, with modernism as well, this idea that grief is linear, it's progressive, it's sequential.
So in the book my thesis is that all problems exist because of what I call contracted awareness. Contracted awareness means you feel separate from the ecosystem.The Google network is an ecosystem so you feel separate from the ecosystem that nurtures the web of relationships.
remember the great protractor shortage of 1911. so uh their lead architect uh contracted scurvy from a trip overseas so the job of designing the outfield led to his replacement fell to hisreplacement charlton crazy eyes muscle who like to do things freehand anyways that's why they look like this um the
with the idea of going into inner city and actually introducing this program to students who otherwise would not participate. They contracted with another company, Millennium, and we set up the program. I provide the space here, and I'm on the board of directors for Georgia FIRST.
Because the human experience is getting so contracted . So contracted . And a weird thing's happening. As much as we are looking for that sort of the virtual world in which we live, and the digital world in which we live,
Just being mindful of our postures during the day as we are sitting, walking, standing, and lying down. We contracted being fully open, fully engaged, and welcoming each unfolding, unknown moment of mindfulness and wisdom. And I have to say that's a mouthful, what I just said.
And in fact engaged in some conversation with the people responsible for the attack. And it turned out that the Kyrgyese authorities had contracted out to a Ukrainian hacker to blast these opposition newspaper web sites offline during the time of demonstrations. And this is something that Rafal actually coined the term "just in time" filtering, which is a great way of getting at this idea that
When I came up, my daddy was a farmer. But he contracted the cotton field, picked cotton. But we did it for my father.
that, in three months, killed more people than the entire war had killed before that. Over 200 million people contracted the influenza. 20 million of them died in those few months.
And she says-- he's ailing so much. He's contracted illness, living on the streets, drinking out of gutters. She says, all this, we can make it disappear.
And a tough guy, you know, a real hard-nosed guy. And he contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion. But what was really unusual about his situation was that six months before, when his son called him to tell him that he was gay and that he was now infected with HIV,
Distraction is really good. See how they're contracted .
Guitar only threw the problem into relief. As network television contracted , the media business folded dozens of magazines, and YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion dollars-- again, sounds like a small number now-- with other one billion-plus tech acquisitions and giant IPOs in the offing-- I found myself mystified by how much time I spent away
And her voice was a little irritated. Both of us had contracted a little bit into that tanha. I picked up a ream of paper off the shelf in the office supply store.
When we're contracted , obviously it's going to cut off the oxygen. It's going to cut off the breathing.
And when we're contracted , we're like a little bird that's just been through an oil spill.
And the little girl contracted .
So it's contracted out, but it was really good.
Europe actually contracted . Europe's in recession.
We've already been contracted . We will do it.
who's kind of like contracted through the army and um, and uh, and and sees them both and and the therapist is like
In a way, it's scary. Because the human experience is getting so contracted . So contracted . And a weird thing's happening.
Then this patient unfortunately also contracted C. difficile and then received a fecal transplant as a result.
That's why we chose the word contracted .
The world is expanded and contracted as far as marketing a business and special restaurants, right?
And then that word Filius Bonacci gets contracted by a historian in the 19th century into the word Fibonacci.
decision about the thing general contracted wrong we you tell of it was
Maybe-- oh, labels. And then suddenly I realized what I was doing. There was this little place that contracted just a little that was looking for something that would feel good to buy. You ever done that?
And here are some examples of contracted power costs, but for which the company sells power to the utilities.
The number of languages in Europe has contracted radically over recent years through the policies of state formation.
But now it's being contracted .
And as the instant film business contracted a little bit, they had all these fixed costs.
A baby can read body language before a baby learns language. So if you're in contracted awareness your posture first of all is depressed, your eyes are shifty, you have a scowl on your face, you're contracted in general, you're probably constipated as well because you have tight sphincters, everywhere.
There's no social transformation in the absence of personal transformation. When you were speaking about contracted awareness versus expanded awareness it just struck me that maybe at a place like Google people, that feeling of stress or the feeling of contracted
blind natural impetus I never contracted my forehead in the act of thinking I
we use this in leadership development is because leaders who are contracted like that who become angry in response to
the work and one of the guys he contracted with was a guy named William Burt. And William Burt was inventor and he had invented a typewriter that he had a patent on already and he also
about 30,000 of these which was the contracted amount to um Tandy and they
We see the Kyrgyzstan case being multiplied and duplicated in other parts of the world, where it's not uncommon for web sites to at critical times to be taken down by criminal organizations or DDoS attacks that are contracted out by somebody. And this is the interesting thing, and I think why it makes it so attractive as a tool of shaping cyberspace, is that there's plausible
And I started to suffer from full on nervous breakdowns and ultimately contracted an autoimmune disease
When I was 25, my mom contracted pancreatic cancer.
Two, they generally can be contracted for long duration.
was required. KenKen Puzzle Company contracted with a pioneer in computer chess development and long-time president
I did. I've got three books contracted in this series, and I've set it up so I can add it after three or six or nine.
But often, we'll be contracted .
Forgiveness is another way. Forgiveness means letting go of resentments and grievances because in every state of contracted awareness that's an ingredient: resentment, grievance. Nelson Mandela said that having a grievance is like drinking poison and hoping it'll kill your enemy.
And what is a spiritual experience? In short, I've outlined it from contracted to expanded and to pure. But when you look at all the religions they all have a few principles.
gets the patent and the company, who has contracted him and is paying him to do the designing.
through into the retail sector. Retail ____ have probably contracted by 20 percent. You know, Woolworth's, or the more visible bits of it. That fed through into the supply chains -- manufacturing,