Yeah right, keep apologizing for absurdities and trying to make
sense of things for which no sense can be made.
It can be extremely frustrating to try to make
sense of these things for many customers of car insurance companies.
Better to focus, as Wilson suggests, on helping your readers by filtering and curating and making
sense of things for them (and giving them tools to do that themselves), and building a relationship with them based on that, rather than nickel - and - dime - ing them for every little thing and forcing them to stay inside your walled garden.
Not exact matches
«They receive money from us
for whatever they want or need; thus, kids don't develop a
sense of responsibility
for completing job tasks, accountability to a boss who doesn't inherently love them, or an appreciation
for the cost
of things and how to manage money.»
This sort
of helps see it, not quite to scale, but it gives you a better
sense for where
things are.
This is the first
thing we talk about in Lean Startup because you can not do any
of the techniques
of Lean Startup — the rapid experimentation, the scientific approach, the broad development — none
of it makes any
sense and can't work unless you have a vision
for what you are trying to accomplish.
The truth is, I feel a stronger
sense of family, a bigger
sense of permanence, which is a nice
thing for me.»
To get a better
sense of where
things are heading, Business Insider has taken a closer look at technology's developing role in the field
of education and outlined the advances that could be spelled out
for the future.
If a manager understands what makes employees engaged the opportunity
for personal growth, appreciation, belonging and a
sense of providing value), making work and love the same
thing is entirely possible.
It means driving the same car
for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes
sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying
things for the sake
of buying them.
(Nest was recently acquired by Google
for $ 3.2 billion, which gives a
sense of the potential the software giant sees in the Internet
of things.)
I think there will ultimately be a communication backlash, and we will disconnect more and more, and look
for ways to avoid the growing
sense of daily overwhelm and try to find some kind
of harmony in a radically out
of balance world, simply by remembering how to turn
things off.
These motion - tracking sensors will give a person «a stronger
sense of being transported» to a virtual environment because they will presumably make it easier
for people to move around and look at
things in digital worlds like they do in real life.
One
of the
things that makes us feel weak as negotiators — and it's those
of us who feel weak that are likely to go looking
for advice — is the
sense that the other side has more information than we do.
That flies against the «move fast and break
things» ethos
of Silicon Valley, but it makes
sense for their business, says Ready - Campbell.
A couple
of things: early sales figures
for BlackBerry 10, and a renewed
sense of urgency at the company.
Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation
for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes
sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch
of the same
things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot
of video
for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.
Mobile access can mean a variety
of things in these days
of tablets and smart phones, but
for someone who wants to be able to access their live chat almost any time and from any location with Internet access, the best option is Website Alive, which at $ 29.95 a month
for the first two operators also makes sound financial
sense.
A crowdsourced delivery network
for all kinds
of things — not just groceries — makes
sense for Instacart, another unicorn company, and one that's raised $ 274 million so far.
There are a lot
of things donors are looking
for: A reduction in taxes, a
sense of doing good in the community, and the satisfaction that comes from donating to causes that go against the opposing political party (so - called «rage donating.»)
«By having a clear
sense of your dreams and your personality, you can be prepared
for unexpected situations, and reassess your goals when
things don't go according to plan.
I hope I have instilled in each
of you the values that have blessed me in this life and rewarded me with this extraordinary
sense of accomplishment and a confidence that you can break rules and make
things work
for the better.
The thrill
of finding a bargain on Black Friday is a real
thing, but sometimes the hunt
for those deals can overrule common
sense.
Right on the heels
of The Wolverine, which topped its opening weekend box office, it makes
sense to get the fanboys itching
for the next big
thing in the X-Men universe.
So instead
of cramming their heads full
of disparate facts, we need to give them the ability to explore
things for themselves, take in new information, make
sense of it and communicate what they've learned to others.
«Albertans will give the government a free reign
for a very long time, as long as they
sense the government is taking care
of things in a way that is basically sound,» says Danielle Smith, the Wildrose Alliance's leader.
«Throughout my 21 years at Intuit, the one
thing that clearly stands out
for me is the
sense of caring and community.
The classy
thing for this failed emperor to do would be to step down, but he probably cares more about his reputation or worse, he has some perverted
sense of duty to the company which he delusionally believes needs him.
Fake follower counts are based on Points North scanning followers
of influencers to sort out such
things as accounts making comments in languages that don't make
sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts making the exact same comments across multiple influencers and posts.
And I warned at a number
of junctures in 1999 before the Internet bubble, and again in the winter
of 2007, that the main
thing we had to fear was the lack
of fear itself, precisely because a
sense that everything is stable is a self - denying prophecy, because if there is a
sense that everything is stable, -LSB-...] people will take on more risk and that will then create the conditions
for future instability.
One
of the bewildering
things about Hurricane Harvey,
for observers and especially
for Houstonians themselves, has been the lack
of a comprehensive
sense of the extent
of the flooding.
While it rarely — if ever — makes
sense for investors to «put all
of their eggs in one basket,» putting all your eggs in too many baskets may not be a good
thing either.
For one
thing, it gives you a
sense of what you can afford in the current market.
I know Steve (and possibly most investors talk
of keeping cash on hand
for a «potential drop in the mkt and getting great value buys» sort
of thing), which I agree makes a lot
of sense.
-LSB-...] Ben: «It's counterintuitive to assume that poor market performance is a good
thing, but that's exactly what it can be
for younger investors or those with many years to continue saving from their paychecks» (A Wealth
Of Common
Sense)-LSB-...]
While Hickenlooper later clarified that he was excitedly pursuing the headquarters because he felt it was the right
thing for the city and state, he allowed that some citizens would feel «a
sense of relief if they choose somewhere else because there are a lot
of challenges and lot
of hard work we will be avoiding.»
Last year I wrote on Suven Life Sciences, also I did some secondary level maths to get a
sense of returns an investor could get buying the business at then market cap (~ 2000 INR Crores or 400 Million USD) and exiting in 2024 See Snap shot below The base case CAGR didn't excite but reading management commentary compelled me to take a tracking position in model portfolio Over to this year One
thing in AR gave me a Jeff Bezos moment
For the first time management was sounding optimistic (this is coming from a management which is very conservative on record) Emphasis mine Management views on past Despite having grown the business every single year across the last five years, our business sustainability has been consistently questioned.
«The other
thing that's kind
of worked
for them so far has been the fact that they have a mix
of agility and skill in the
sense that individual countries at five or 10 million are agile enough to do a lot
of these
things, create a case, data, case study and then present it at the EU level.
(Musk slipped at least one reference to the book into the software
of the Tesla Model S.) As a teenager, Vance writes in his biography, Musk formulated a mission statement
for himself: «The only
thing that makes
sense to do is strive
for greater collective enlightenment.»
The most
sense you can possibly make
of the stupid sh!t is: Big invisible and undetectable sky wizard chanted magic spells
for six days to make the entire universe «perfect,» yet fragile enough that one twist
of one woman's wrist threw the entire
thing into nuclear meltdown (sin / corruption)---- oh yeah, and throw a talking snake in there, somewhere.
Academics write about
things they know so much about that they no longer have any passion
for the subject or any
sense of its intrinsic interest, since,
for understandable reasons, it is all now very boring to them.
Although there is often a
sense of things happening
for a reason and a guiding force behind events, Jesus has never once shown up in any
of King's stories that I've read.
The prospect that my father knew what was happening yet was powerless to stop it or, in some consoling
sense to put
things in order, is an aspect
of his throes that has worked me over
for decades.
The average Jew would have felt a
sense of powerlessness and inability to change
things for the better.
The dispensationalism to which the two
of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong
sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins
of the dominant culture, waiting
for the Lord to «rapture» them out
of the increasing cultural mess before
things got drastically worse.
yo the
thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind
of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material
for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea
of it, which would give life a
sense right?
The Bible covers so many different literary genres though and is written
for and by so many different people at different times, that it simply doesn't make
sense to talk
of the whole
thing as an «instruction manual».
I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good
things in this culture (like greater freedom
for the individual), but that these come at the expense
of certain dangers (like a weakening
of the
sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point
of trade - off between advantages and costs.
Man is a noble creature, so that constant state
of chaos may be occasionally broken by intermittent times
of peace that men may work together
for some purpose or endeavor that may seem advantageous at the time, but the morality
of men by themselves is a fickle
thing, and it is ever changing to please an ever declining
sense of morality
of the masses.
But underneath it all is a small, almost imperceptable current
of life, and a promise
of things so wonderful, we can not even comprehend them.I've seen it and
sensed it, and tasted it, even if only
for sporadic fleeting moments.