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a wave you ride or wipe out on, always crashing the second everyone learns to surf
means A general direction in which something is developing or changing, often one that catches on widely for a time.
from From Old English 'trendan,' to turn or roll, kin to a family of Germanic words about rotating and revolving. For centuries it kept that literal sense — rivers and coastlines were said to 'trend' this way or that, meaning they bent in a direction. The figurative leap to fashions, opinions, and fads (the way things are 'turning') is a more modern development, and the buzzword 'trending' is a child of the social-media age.
- life span
- Most viral trends die within 72 hours.
- origin
- Word comes from Old English for to turn or roll
- the loop
- Fashion cycles repeat roughly every 20 years
- math root
- Trend lines are just statistics wearing confidence
- the catch
- Once measured, a trend has often already ended
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