Mike Mercer: Our motivation had a number of factors — financial (and with the rental of the home we own, we have great cash flow), quality
of life experiment (could our lives be just as meaningful and happy living in a small space?
Forget economics, comfort, pleasure... There is an absolute value, translating into a rather powerful sense of obligation, to do whatever I reasonably can to see that extinction
of this life experiment we're all involved in doesn't terminate if we can prevent it.
I've spent more time than I would care to admit pondering this question and I've spent years
of my life experimenting with various full body workouts and split routines.
You and your potential partners will also have a better idea at this point of your likes and dislikes, and what you're looking for out of life, so you won't have to worry about the emotional roller coaster of dealing with someone who is trying to «figure things out» and using you as one
of their life experiments.
But if you do, you will need to contemplate a whole new world of recharging, learn not to be caught away from grid power, and you'll become part
of a live experiment to see how the cars hold up in the next five to 10 years.
DaDaFest, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, 4 Exhibition Commissions: Art
of the Lived Experiment, 8 November 2014 - 11 January 2015 - # 4,000
With the lessons learned from
both of these live experiments, Nivaura and LuxDeco have plans for a number of further implementations.
Not exact matches
The founders
of Emerald Therapeutics, D.J. Kleinbaum and Brian Frezza, think it comes down to the difficulty
of running
experiments in the
life sciences.
You're looking at one, tiny piece
of jeans giant Levi Strauss's (Change the World 2017 list, No. 11) ambitious
experiment to improve the
lives of the 25 million men and women in the world's apparel supply chain — and better its business results in the process.
Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all
of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass -
experiment in
living online.
It's
experimenting around loan terms, to figure out ways to make sure the loan is really causing the most positive impact possible in the
lives of the poor.
The company treated this election's party conventions as practice for the NFL games, running
live streams
of each as a way to
experiment with the format.
«We're
living a social
experiment,» says Khalid Alkhudair, CEO
of Glowork, a female recruiting company in the kingdom that has helped place 26,000 Saudi women in jobs since 2011.
To you make your
live videos transcend the quality
of a smartphone
experiment with lens kits.
«For now, the options for advertisers are limited; companies can
experiment with distributing
live video feeds
of their own, but there isn't much paid advertising.
All
of business — and
life — is an
experiment.
Other
experiments that have improved my
life beyond my expectations include doing burpees daily (I haven't missed a day in almost five years and am in the best shape
of my
life) and to go one week only eating food with no packaging (which increased my fresh fruit and vegetable intake ever since, and did I mention the best shape
of my
life?).
More recently, WeWork began
experimenting with a co-
living space, WeLive, where people rent part
of a
living space and take part in shared amenities as part
of the deal.
Not only will these
experiments provide you with valuable feedback on whether you'll really enjoy that new
life you're eyeing for yourself, but they're also mercifully small and doable — it's hard to tie yourself up in knots
of fear and procrastination when the initial step is so tiny.
We have to
live by the values that we have,
of running these innovation
experiments, and if they fail, it's all part
of it.
In that series
of experiments, fully two - thirds
of experimental subjects — volunteers from various walks
of life — demonstrated that they were willing to administer a lethal dose
of electricity to a stranger, just because an authority figure in a white lab coat told them to.
If you're curious to learn more
of Roberts's takeaways from his extreme
experiment in disconnection, New York magazine's Science
of Us column also has a fascinating follow - up interview with him in which he delves into the impact
of his sabbatical on family
life, how long it takes your brain to stop thinking in tweets, and other insights.
Something as simple as a feed
of text and images has provided us with an easier way to achieve the benefits that the Wright Brothers»
life - threatening
experiments have: an on - demand way to expose ourselves to new ideas, meet new people and better maintain relationships with friends and family.
Although lots
of corporate brands are now
experimenting with
live video, it's Buzzfeed that's done the most to forge the path.
Typical freelancers, for the purposes
of this
experiment, are single adults with no children, moderate
living expenses and a 1,000 - square foot apartment, «which is a good sized one - bedroom in most cities.»
Developers are
experimenting with real -
life simulation software, such as one that allows the user to climb Mount Everest from the comfort
of their home.
While the College
of Wooster began
experimenting with tiny
living in 2014, the College
of Charleston is poised to unveil a renovated residence hall based on tiny
living this fall.
In other words, this series
of experiments proved that the ability to delay gratification was critical for success in
life.
A. J. Jacobs, author
of My
Life as an
Experiment and The Year
of Living Biblically «It may sound like hyperbole, but it's true: Medicine is undergoing its biggest revolution since the invention
of the germ theory.
For years, Twitch.tv has been the web's go - to for gaming
live streams, crowd - sourced
experiments like Pokémon playthroughs and commenter - controlled investment portfolios, and other bits
of acceptably time - killing content.
«During the first phase
of the partnership BRAC and
Living Goods
experimented with differing variations in the operational model.
If a one year
experiment cuts working
life from (say) 40 years to 39 years, the effects
of a lifetime
of basic income will be 40 times bigger than measured by a one year
experiment.
You might need to run the
experiment for three score and ten years to get some idea
of the
life - cycle effects.
With Google algorithm and platform updates including Florida, Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, Pigeon, RankBrain, Mobile, Possum, Fred and the thousands
of launches,
live traffic
experiments, side - by - side
experiments and over 130,000 search quality tests, it makes you wonder: is this all for improving the customer experience or is some
of it to thwart SEO?
Experiment with what you post (images, videos, albums,
live video, length
of text etc), when you do it and how you target it.
«All these
experiments and proofs -
of - concept were not done in a vacuum and they were not done for fun,» said Charley Cooper, managing director
of the R3 distributed ledger consortium, which has its own series
of live applications in the final stages
of launch.
At the end
of the day, this is an
experiment, and we expect the building to take on a personality and
life of it's own.
But i would ask that you remember Ruth chapter 1, and there 10 + yrs
experiment of leaving what they formerly believed to be right, they
lived, they prospered,... then....
Two things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this
experiment, and why do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a Christian raised by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis
of faith is normal in
life, denouncing faith is shameful
In the restricted sense that we had showed with this
experiment how god was unnecessary for the creation
of new
life, I suppose we were,» Venter writes in hi new book.»
Only those
living in the gated moral world
of elite America can possibly imagine that our grand
experiment in sexual liberation has not come at a great cost to the most vulnerable.
He learns to cope within a blended family, attempts to understand and contend with an abusive and alcoholic stepfather, and later dates and
experiments with drugs and alcohol; experiences that are not uncommon within the
lives of youth today.
His
experiment is not to determine if there is a god or the effects
of a god, but to experience
life as a person who does not believe in any god.
Again, this sort
of ruggedness may have it's place, and could be a great experience or
experiment, but it is not «better» than
living in town.
Scott re «if you can design
experiments to actually confirm»: I doubt you apply this theory
of knowledge - scientism - to other aspects
of your
life.
He did not inform these places
of employment directly that he was performing an
experiment that made him unable to fulfill his duties (such as helping believing dissertation - writing students through a difficult time
of life and faith) anymore or agree to the belief statement he promised to adhere to anymore.
The American
experiment is inseparable from a religiously grounded morality that produced a polity that not only tolerates but requires the vibrant exercise
of religion in public
life.
Others, on the contrary, see the rise
of an oppressive, progressive anti-traditionalism as a kind
of betrayal
of the principles underlying the American
experiment and the practice
of American
life as we have known it.
But Evans bridges the divide between the belts in her new book, The Year
of Biblical Womanhood, the result
of an
experiment in which she
lived the Old and New Testament's instructions for women as literally as possible for an entire year.
It involves breaking away from former ways
of living and
experimenting with new activities in order to figure out what to do with the rest
of one's active
life.