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the invisible difference between a joke and a confession, a hero and a fool.
means The skill or fact of choosing or arranging the moment something happens so it lands well.
from From the verb 'time' plus the '-ing' that turns actions into things you can name. 'Time' itself comes from Old English 'tīma' — a stretch or season — kin to the word 'tide,' which once meant not the sea's pull but simply 'a time' (as it still does in 'Yuletide' and 'eventide'). So 'timing' is, at root, the act of riding the tide: catching the moment as it crests, or missing it.
- comedy law
- The pause sells the punchline more than the words
- biology
- Cells keep a 24-hour clock without sunlight
- finance
- Most investors lose by buying high, panicking low
- physics
- Atomic clocks lose one second every 100 million years
- war
- Battles flip on minutes, not might
for instance
d-day normandy invasion — june 6 1944 at 6:30 am, entire wwii operation depended on tide and weather windows