✍ Writing & Words
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Salvo: a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute : the release all at one time of a rack of bombs or rockets.
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Niveous: snowy or resembling snow
✍️ Seven Minute Drill #2: bradley-andrews.com
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Lake Wobegon Effect: the human tendency to overestimate one’s capabilities and achievements in relation to others.
I’ve heard many names for this bias, but this name is fun since it comes from a book that describes a fictional town where “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average.” 🤣
✍️ A Brief Note On Spotify Economics and The Cessation of the Penny: bradley-andrews.com
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Therianthropic: combining human and animal form; esp. relating to religions in which the deities worshiped are partly human and partly animal
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Caveat Emptor: a Latin phrase meaning “let the buyer beware”; the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made
Should a business student like me have known what this meant before today? Probably… but here we are.
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Polysemous: the capacity for a sign, symbol, word, or phrase to have multiple related meanings
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Kufungisisa: a Shona idiom from Zimbabwe that translates to “thinking too much.” It is a cultural term used to describe a state of mental distress that causes other kinds of bodily ills.
🗞️ I just posted my first ever short story: A Grimm Night on Central Park South. In honor of Halloween, I center it around the spookiest thing imaginable: Big Tech. I would love if you checked out this little piece of dark fiction and gave feedback. Please read and tell me what you think! 🎃🐺🏙️👻
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Hoi Polloi: the general populace ; MASSES
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Zugzwang: a chess situation where a player must move, and any legal move worsens their position, giving them a disadvantage
✍️ Streamers Are Clowns: bradley-andrews.com
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Clepsydra: an ancient time-measuring device worked by a flow of water.
🗞️ 5 Easy Rules to Understand Technology. My latest newsletter is out now. I draw heavily from Melvin Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, which I believe should be mandatory reading for all technologists and media ecology heads.
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Ensorcell: to enchant; fascinate
✍️ Third spaces are alive and well. A kind stranger in a coffee shop gave me this book to read last weekend. Read the full story here: bradley-andrews.com/2025/10/0…
🗞️ My new post “Long Live Everything” is out now:
It’s not the quality of a creative act that people necessarily respond to—it is the freedom that is represented in the act. The bendings of our culture lean so heavily toward criticism, consumption, and conformity that even the smallest hint of the alternative constitutes a mini-revolution. People who slant away from the well-worn paths tend to inspire others without even being conscious of it. When someone begins doing what they want—as opposed to just doing what they’re told—it gives courage for others to do the same.
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Limerence: the mental state of being madly in love or intensely infatuated, particularly when reciprocation of the feeling is uncertain.
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Badinage: humorous or witty conversation