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Using the thesaurus to generate ideas §

Let’s treat words like ideas

This is an example of using something as fundamental as WORDS to generate ideas and opinions.

• Belated: on time - Ant: punctual — CI: 820
  • Birthday. This makes me think of…Facebook and birthday notifications.
  • Facebook does a lot of harm.
    • By amplifying the most emotionally-charged posts, Facebook contributes to actual violence.
• Exhaustive: no stone unturned, all-encompassing, encyclopedic — 531, 772
  • Exhausting, tired,
  • Wikipedia is fairly exhaustive. It’s funny how teachers said not to use it, but now everyone uses it. I guess a question, how do we verify sources?
• Quickly: briskly, rapidly, swiftly — CI: 588, 799
  • Agility, time goes quickly
  • The funny thing about quickly, is that it’s never quick enough. We chronically underestimate how long something takes.