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Fight or Flight - Sketchplanations Fight-or-flight psychology, coined by physiologist Walter Cannon in 1915, is only part of a broader spectrum of acute stress responses. A more accurate sequence we experience may be freeze, flight, fight, or fright. Freeze: Our immediate reaction to danger might be to “stop, look, listen,” remaining hyper-vigilant while we assess the threat, and perhaps hope by not moving, the dinosaur won’t spot us. Flight: We may flee the situation to safety....

Rule of Silence definition by The Linux Information Project The rule of silence, also referred to as the silence is golden rule, is an important part of the Unix philosophy that states that when a program has nothing surprising, interesting or useful to say, it should say nothing. It means that well-behaved programs should treat their users’ attention and concentration as being valuable and thus perform their tasks as unobtrusively as possible....

“Equality and equity” by Jono Hey (Sketchplanations) Equality is fairness through uniformity, and equity is fairness through a recognition of individual needs. If everyone gets the same—equality—this is fairer than some people getting something and others nothing. In contrast, equity considers each person’s individual needs to give everyone the same opportunity.

A Plan Is Not a Strategy - YouTube Strategic ≠ Planning What most “strategic planning” is in the world of business has nothing to do with strategy. It’s got the word, but it’s not. It’s a set of activities that the company says it‘s going to do. … but the results of all of those are not going to make the company happy, because they didn’t have a strategy. What’s a strategy?...

The distinction between a map and a graph is that in the map, the space has meaning. … Almost everything you’ve ever seen in business that calls itself a map, is instead a graph: mind maps are mind graphs, business process maps are business process graphs, etc. What gives space meaning is the anchor … combined with the position of pieces … and consistency of movement … — Simon Wardley in Simple tips for managing any project

Check Up, Checkup or Check-Up - Which One to Use? Checkup: When it’s a single word like this, it’s a noun to describe an appointment. “I have a checkup at the dentist later this month.” Check-up: Add in the hyphen, and it becomes a phrasal adjective meant to describe the type of appointment or something. “My check-up appointment is at two o’clock, Thursday.” Check up: If used as two individual words, you’ve got yourself a verb to describe what you’re doing, aka a phrasal verb....

mosquito s. m. Entom . Insecto díptero de que há várias espécies. melga s. f. Espécie de mosquito. Ictiol. Peixe pequeno da feição da raia.