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2021: Creating the Lexicon of Future
R is for Refresh
Refreshing the Screen
I use the phrase ‘refresh the screen’ a lot. And, if we were speaking in person, you’d see that I add hand motions to represent the action of actually drawing down a new ‘screen’.
Refresh Rate
Taken from the technology world, the phrase ‘refresh the screen’ is a shorthand for updating your perspective on the world.
Displays aren’t static. Content and motion appear smooth on your phone’s screen because every pixel updates to display the latest content from your handset’s processor. But this doesn’t happen randomly. Panels update their content at regular intervals, known as the refresh rate. The refresh rate measures how quickly the phone’s display updates. In other words, how often and quickly the content on the screen refreshes. ~ Refresh Rate Explained
Because we’re human we don’t have engineers working to automate our refresh rate so we need to create our own methods to keep our view on the world updated.
For me, this translates to asking 4 questions:
- Is it true?
- Has it ever been true?
- Could it be true?
- Should it be true?
