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the art of doing nothing while everything happens.
means the process of maintaining the right conditions, usually warmth and time, so something undeveloped can finish becoming itself.
from from latin incubare, to lie down upon, originally describing a hen sitting on her eggs and ancient practices of sleeping in temples to receive prophetic dreams.
temple sleepgreeks incubated in shrines to dream cures
psychology termunconscious problem solving during a break
human eggshumans cannot physically incubate, too cool
for instance
chicken eggs — 21 days at 37.5 celsius to hatch
neonatal incubators — keep premature infants alive since the 1880s
startup incubators — y combinator has funded over 4000 companies since 2005
asklepios temples — ancient greeks slept there hoping gods would heal them