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viral describes something caused by or of the nature of a virus and, in its now-dominant figurative sense, content that spreads quickly and widely from person to person, especially through social...

Holding space is the practice of staying fully present with someone through what they are experiencing, without judging, fixing, or steering the outcome, so they can feel and process on their own...

resonance | noun | (1) a vibration caused by a small periodic stimulus of the same or similar as the natural vibration, (2) enhancement by excitation of internal motion, (3) a synchronous...

Contribution is value given into a community or enterprise, and the unit by which that value is recognized, recorded, and eventually returned. In the economy One Inc ran as a California worker...

BAMF is an initialism for bad-ass motherfucker — a person who is exceptionally tough, capable, or formidably impressive. The term functions almost exclusively as praise, applied to someone whose...

Our glossary is a glossary of the words and phrases we use regularly. Glossary apocryphal — of doubtful authenticity; widely repeated and plausible, but unverified attune — to bring into harmony...

apocryphal describes a story, quotation, or attribution of doubtful authenticity — widely repeated and plausible enough to pass, but unverified and probably not what it claims to be. The everyday...

disparate describes things essentially different in kind — so unlike that comparison does not hold — and, of a single body or collection, one made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous...

circumlocution is the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea — speaking around a subject rather than naming it directly. The term covers three fairly different behaviours....

brevity is shortness of duration, and especially shortness or conciseness of expression — the quality of saying something in fewer words than it might have taken. Both senses are live. The first is...

synchronous describes things happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time — coordinated to a shared clock, so that each party's participation depends on the others being present....

Champagne problems are challenges that arise from conditions of success or abundance rather than scarcity or hardship. The phrase is commonly used to describe situations where the problems themselves...

A thinking deck is a practice of Thinking in Public to create pitch decks for financing, marketing, etc. It is made open for public comment to those with the link and enables co-creativity and play...

Fourth Wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes, the actors act...

Exact Truthers are those seek definitive answers. Finite games have rules, and rule make space for answers but confine reality. Infinite games, or Living Systems, are processes that run continuously....

Creative fatigue is characterized by a lack of inspiration, motivation, and energy to create or produce creative work. It often occurs after extended periods of intense creativity or when working on...

Contexts lexicon

Psychographic segmentation is the division of consumer audiences based upon their personality traits, values, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles. [1] References Psychographic Segmentation in...