doing in, you know, his talk about putting up a wall with Mexico or these giant superficially unpopular tariffs um with other countries? He's He's saying, "Listen, we're not powerless, right? Thegovernment has seemed to have been powerless in the face of mass migration, in the face of jobs being outsourced.
for an opportunity, if they don't have that direct line to the place you're trying to go, chances are they'll know somebody who does. Superficially , what can you do remotely?
different kinds of classroom from a Yeshiva or a madrasa to a classroom appropria and superficially I worry about teaching people to write in a world where that kind of reading goes on
Just like loving-kindness meditation is basically the wishing that someone else be happy. And happy doesn't mean superficially happy and as you're, like, behaving terribly in the world, in your eyes, on this other person, but wishing that, like, a deeper kind of happiness.
marketing budget to give some of that budget to do better usability studies, you need to know the language of marketing just like an ambassador would. And not just to know it superficially , but to know it inherently and understand that value system so you can participate in it. So there's this notion of design, this word, this term design literate.
Another more specific thing I think it's worth looking for is evidence of things like pain. So lots of what might look superficially like pain-related behaviors in various animals, especially invertebrates, are probably or possibly quite misleading. They may not be good indicators of felt pain, of the kind of interior sensation of the sort that
This one really looks good. more beautiful than the world superficially looks.
my brain, right to my retina, then I'm not engaging with it very deeply. I'm engaging with it superficially and it's not gonna be memorable. male #3: Yeah but I -- Joshua Foer: We're creating a culture in which everything is kind of, you're just skimming over the surface of the world because it's all coming at you and you're getting the pleasure
So these are all kind of context. The next is even for two folks who might have superficially similar pathways, so let's say consultants, not picking on you and consultants, it's just because consulting has a culture of Encouraging folks to go into business school programs after the first two or three years earlier on in the career and
The result is a silo in which whatever side you're on, you feel absolutely right to hate what you hate. And here is another way in which the essay differs from superficially similar kinds of subjective speech. The essay's roots are in literature, and literature at its best-- the work of Alice Munro, for example-- invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong,
And indeed, there's probably one of those bolts signifying a flash feature on your cell phone right now. The artificial flash and the flash of lightning seem superficially really close. Indeed, they are compressed and amalgamated in this deliberately brief poem by Bill Knott, "Flash." In its entirety, it flares up and reads,
know how to pick winners. I mean, superficially , they're selling sushi, really good sushi, theoretically.
through electronic simulation and prefabricated designs. the one hand to make something that is superficial and superficially useless, but on the order hand the verb to fashion means to make something out of something else, something it wasn't
And that's why in some ways that doesn't work actually, because it isn't a total blank. It isn't the abyss. There are in fact things that you can see, even, even if it's just superficially , and patterns you can recognize to help you and key decision-makers, especially in legal settings, make better decisions around people like this. So, when they see these patterns, they act a better way. So yeah, I get asked a lot
Because we're exposed to so much contradicting information, so many different groups saying different things, it's harder to know what to value. And ironically, because we're superficially connected to so many people, it's harder to form meaningful, face-to-face communities of people who share our values.
So more punishment equals less crime, and superficially it might look like it.
as much, just because it's just like superficial on a superficially level.
And by utilizing a deliberately deficient FOIA search methodology, the FBI superficially
about Trump's ability to command attention and dominate culture. Yes, the event was superficially successful.
easily abused, that even though on the surface, it seems superficially positive, that lurking underneath is
It's coming, it's going, it's actually fluid, however static or concrete we might take it superficially .
Silence descended. Their little social group was just like a thousand others, all over the world, at least superficially .
look like, say, the office we're in right now-- not superficially , anyway-- you have to look at a peculiar confluence of new sorts of buildings,
People use to read a lot less, they read a lot less, a lot deeper, and they really etched these ideas onto their consciousness in a way that would seem totally alien to us today. Today you just can't do that, you can't do that and keep up because the world is more complex; you have to read widely and that means reading superficially . So there's always gonna be that balance.
that were made by all the collectors and dealers and libraries who saw this stuff and said, "Well, this book looks good. This looks like it makes sense. Superficially , it looks like