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the art of making impossible things look like Tuesday morning
means the state of comfort and effortlessness, or the act of making something less difficult or painful.
from From Old French 'aise' meaning comfort or convenience, which slipped into English in the 13th century. The deeper root is murky — possibly from Latin 'adiacens' (lying nearby, hence 'within reach'), or perhaps from a Latin word for an opportunity or elbow-room. The same source gave us 'disease,' which is literally 'dis-ease' — the undoing of comfort.
- latin root
- From aise, meaning elbow room and comfort
- economic term
- Central banks ease rates to flood economies with money
- physical pain
- Ease and disease are linguistic opposites by design
- mastery sign
- True experts make hard things look effortless
panama canal — reduced shipping distance between atlantic and pacific by 8,000 nautical miles when opened in 1914
printing press — gutenberg's 1440 invention made book production 40x faster than hand copying
anesthesia — ether first used in surgery at massachusetts general hospital in 1846, eliminating surgical pain