Daily bread 10/14/2025

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Daily bread 07/28/2025

• Nosy coworkers can spike your stress levels - Futurity

  • a common office menace
  • the nosy coworker
  • loiter
  • chitchat
  • to duck for cover
  • prying and obtrusive
  • blurry lines
  • the 9-to-5 crowd
  • a thorny problem
  • workplace nosiness
  • has come up with
  • they spotted it
  • sparked my interest in
  • eroding boundaries between professional and personal lives
  • burnout and stress
  • gossip/drama
  • to weasel out details about
  • hostile biases
  • in and of themselves
  • pulling down the shutters
  • rife with prying colleagues
  • vying for an advantage over
  • is something he’d like to do more of.
  • being overly curious about

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Daily bread 07/15/2025

• How Nazism ended centuries of Catholic-Protestant enmity | Aeon Essays

  • the enmity between Catholics and Protestants
  • the two confessions
  • hegemony
  • ecumenical
  • invectives
  • Eugenics

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Daily bread 07/04/2025

• What’s so awkward about an awkward silence? | Aeon Essays

  • the sort of silences that leave most people writhing
  • the unnerving habit of thinking before he spoke
  • someone who made such an ‘unnerving’ use of silence
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Silence, as the saying goes, speaks volumes.
  • In many (or even most) cases, we would rather quietly endure the norm-violating behaviour than create awkwardness by challenging it.

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Daily bread 07/02/2025

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Daily bread 06/23/2025

• I use this 'blank line' prompt every day now — here’s why | Tom's Guide

  • “One idea no one’s thought of yet for solving this problem is ___”

• 5 ChatGPT Prompts That Force ChatGPT To Think 10x Deeper

  • "Based on what you know about my business goals and challenges, generate three distinct strategies for [specific business challenge]. For each strategy, include the primary benefits, potential drawbacks, and implementation requirements. After providing all three options, rank them from most to least effective for my specific situation, explaining the key trade-offs that influenced your ranking."
  • "Challenge your thinking by identifying potential blind spots, questioning key assumptions, and offering alternative perspectives I might not have considered."
  • "I've developed a plan for [describe your plan]. Based on what you know about successful approaches in this area, create and apply an expert success checklist to evaluate my plan. For each criterion on your checklist, explain why it matters, assess how well my plan addresses it, and suggest specific improvements where needed. Focus on factors that most directly influence success or failure."

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Daily bread 06/22/2025

• Why Do Non-Americans Refer to “Z” as “Zed”? - Word Smarts

  • align with
  • the English-speaking world
  • feet instead of yards
  • own unique way of doing things
  • Fahrenheit instead of Celsius
  • identity extends to
  • borrowed that letter from
  • which in turn inspired
  • was adopted as
  • may have to do with
  • shortly after declaring independence
  • trying to create a unique identity
  • to standardize
  • his conception of
  • differed from
  • was solidified
  • you likely know it as
  • in his lyrics
  • came shortly before it
  • has been used to
  • has become fully entrenched in
  • it more closely aligns with

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