Desk ("It also doubles as a way to track that I've actually worked.")

Could (The important thing is to be optimistic!)

Gaps (Combinatorial remixing can often be your friend here.)

Nerd Sniping (Warning: Exposure to science may also lead to getting nerd-sniped.)

Tabs (Unless you're like me, in which case plenty of your tabs become zombies in your browser...)

Long Exposure (Of course, this is for subjects that you still use! For myself, this subject is linear algebra. I was pretty confused about it when I first learned the subject, but ever-so-slowly, I've become much better at it. What subject is this for you?)

Belonging (Volunteering isn't easy, but in my experience it's usually worth it.)

Filler Packaging (Note, this is *not* to say that all books should be essays! Rather, find the appropriate container for your idea.)

Forgetting Curves (As a sports coach, I'm *very* familiar with that baseline.)

Performance Trajectories (As a lone wolf by default, this is a reminder to myself.)

Partitioning Skills (You know things are bad when you're deep in the obsession phase for a story but you start mixing in characters and plot elements from the other book you're reading.)

Noticeable Gap (Mastery is becoming at peace with an ever-widening gap.)

Compactify (Unfortunately, we often present mathematics in the opposite order, where we show the nice and tidy formula which only makes sense to someone with a lot of experience and intuition on the subject.)

Bankruptcy (Who am I kidding: I sometimes get nervous about deleting anything, and so I just let the list languish. Sometimes, I switch to new services to achieve the same effect!)

Event Horizon (Any other graduate students feeling the same way?)

Retention (Two reasons: working memory overload and fatigue. It's a fantasy to imagine that my audience will immediately soak up everything I share.)

Outline (As I'm in the midst of thesis-writing, I definitely understand the power of the left panel!)

The Distraction Hump (Unfortunately, giving in to a distraction doesn't pause your way through the curve, but resets you back to zero.)

Edge (My hobby horse is for X = Sports.)

Distillation (And I thought the conversion rate from maple sap to syrup was low...)