How to pronounce “tract” in English

But the idea is that you swallow it, and then it will do a virtual colonoscopy as it moves through your digestivetract by taking pictures.But as it turns out, it doesn't actually do as good as a real colonoscopy, according to most of the stuff that I've

Of course it is.Traction and dis-traction. Both words come from the same Latin root trahere, which means to pull.And you'll notice that both words, traction and distraction, end in the same letters.

And I'm not sure folks who know the arc of the advocacy work appreciate that part of the reason why there's so muchtraction in this country right now on criminal justice reform is because you all demanded that people who have been impactedbe at the center of the work.

The value, to the United States, of these applications has been calibrated about five years ago.tractors, which leads to some interesting stories.

I've mentioned something called the True Health Initiative.tractors just come through and just take out their whole thing.

I am very excited to introduced Diana Cowern Diana is creator of the YouTube channel physics girl she grew up drivingtractors on a farm in Hawaii I think you were just in Hawaii uh surfing scuba diving and playing the ukulele noukulele today I apologize for that and with that training found her way to science and engineering Pursuits

and begin to make a move towards solving it, the power of that will bring people along with you and help your idea gaintraction. Now another strategy, a third strategy that I discovered in the course of talking to these experts, is the niche strategy.This gentleman here is named Sophal Ear.

Male #2: Alameda. Greg Koch: Sort of off Alameda, yeah.Traction. And it was an incredible hole in the wall.It had just a porthole, no sign, and it was off this very, very small street in a very gritty part of town.

And then in April a colleague found this white paper that Dobelli wrote and he demonstrated fairly scientifically how too much news simply removes our ability greatly to digest deepertracts. And that's a huge challenge. If you think about it, all these tiny sound bites are just chipping away at our ability to comprehend things.So it's really a huge challenge for everyone, but if we understand it we can do a lot to

helping farmers to grow nutritious crops from the start. Jahiu, one of my board members, based in Kenya. His companyHello Tractor is connecting farmers with mechanization and digital platforms, increasing yields and livelihoods. It'slike the Uber for tractor. Super cool.

And so, I think that's one way to just you know, the other way is you go ask your current boss for a promotion.by tractors. And then there was we entered the industrial age.

But rather it is an action that we ourselves take.So traction, by definition, is any action that pulls you towards what you said you were going to do-- things that you do with intent, thingsthat move you closer to your values and help you become the kind of person you want to become.

When it does the same thing in India, it relies more heavily on cheap labor.When tractors were first invented, they were long not adapted because there weren't any operatives that could actuallyrun the machines. And "The New York Times" noted in 1918, that the tractor is too good a machine to be put in the hands of a poor operator.

My father was a blacksmith with nine children to support.When tractors were placed horses on the farms, his trade and skills became redundant.And like so many more, our family became economic migrants.

So it wasn't until she became an outsider that all of a sudden, her ideas seemed to get more valuationor traction. So what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about-- well, why is it the case that sometimes what we're doingdoesn't seem to add traction to solving some of our internal problems?

My tractor's been broken for three weeks.

My tractor's been broken for so long-- I borrowed my friend's tractor.

The tractor is the groove of the song.

fast tractor, or else our tone, our style would have to go down a whole different flight, you know, we would have to do farmer jokes for 10 years. Red sky at night, you know,

And it's a tract of nerve cells, a tract of neurons, which release that signaling compound, dopamine, which I mentioned earlier.

So the reproductive tract initially is not different in genetic males and females.

So then the genital tract looks more female.

understanding the digestive tract of an animal, understanding utilizing all parts.

What does this tract look like?

get a urinary tract infection or pneumonia.

"Our neighborhood was all tract houses and bordered by orange groves.

Solid evidence that urinary tract infections in people can be what's called a zoonosis, an animal to human disease.

This is a tract home in Southern California.

Your gastrointestinal tract could work on that for seven years and have no luck digesting it.

Hello Tractor is connecting farmers with mechanization and digital platforms, increasing yields and livelihoods. It'slike the Uber for tractor. Super cool.My other buddy, Gayatri, based out of Rwanda. Her company EarthEnable is replacing dirt floors in village homes

Some of them gained traction, questions like: How many golf balls can fit in a 747?

and that makes it tractable.

And so, I think that's one way to just you know, the other way is you go ask your current boss for a promotion.to build the tractors.

started reading religious tracts and now when I'm engaged in a conversation, I

to gain traction. Now, El Sayed is one-on-one with Stevens, who's consolidated the moderate lane and is

that move you closer to your values and help you become the kind of person you want to become.Those are acts of traction.Conversely, anything that pulls you away from what you said you were going to do, away from your values, away from becoming the kind of person

and social media. If it's not what you plan to do with your time, it is a distraction.So now we have traction.We have distraction. Now let's talk about what triggers us to take these actions.

you're essentially taking distraction and turning it into traction.By making time for traction, what you're doing is you're planning the input.Our input is our time and our attention, not the output.

again more tractable think about a deck

And we have tractors, special tractors, that we outfitted like ambulances so we could go off road to mountains or beaches where people get injured

Showing good traction. Had a real product there.

and gain the traction of early investment, and that this is probably going to profoundly reshape the way we create monetization out

It's more tractable than the hard problem.

I had initial traction, but how to scale was really difficult in the beginning.

So census tracts are--

is a lot more tractable and, I think, is a less satisfying question.

And it got some traction.

I made a little traction, because I have two friends, one who's a world expert on fractals.

They got traction because they would promise to stop the incredible corruption of an oppressive regime.