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Synchronous means to do things in a batch, all at once. There’s a bunch of things that have to happen. So synchronously to make sandwiches, first you would cut all the slices of bread and then you would lay them all out. Then you would cut the cheese, as it were, and put it on the sandwiches. Asynchronously, you make a sandwich when you need one, and then you make another sandwich when you need one. So, it was very unusual to fund startups synchronously.
Interviews With the Masters
Robert Greene
This clarification was necessary, because I will be explaining that the world we experience - which is the only one we can know - is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it. This implies that there is no simple and single, wholly mind-independent, truth. What I did not want to appear to be saying, at any cost, was that there is no such thing as truth; or that reality is simply made up at our whim.
Absolutely not.
The Matter With Things
Iain McGilchrist
It only makes sense that some ability to pre-sense future events—if it exists—would orient us specifically toward meaningful upheavals, and experiences of death and loss are some of the most meaningful in our lives.
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