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a beautiful lie you tell yourself about how tomorrow will obey you
means A plan listing tasks or events along with the times they're meant to happen.
from From Latin 'schedula,' a little strip of papyrus or paper — a slip, a note. It traveled through Old French 'cedule' into English, where it long meant a small written note or appended document (think 'Schedule A' on a contract). The sense of a timed plan came later. The famous transatlantic split — Americans saying 'SKED-ule,' Brits saying 'SHED-ule' — stems from disagreement over how to treat that initial 'sch,' borrowed from Greek-flavored Latin.
- two pronunciations
- Americans say 'sked', Brits say 'shed', both judge each other
- latin roots
- from scheda, meaning a strip of papyrus
- parkinson's law
- work expands to fill the time allotted
- buffer myth
- tasks routinely take longer than any human predicts
- train origins
- standardized time zones existed mainly to fix railway schedules
northeast regional amtrak — train route between boston and washington dc departing daily on a fixed timetable
nfl sunday — designated day when 13-14 nfl games are played simultaneously each week during season
class schedule mit — students at mit follow a published calendar with specific course meeting times each semester