She struggles with being constantly abandoned by her lover, who is off "revolutionizing the country", and she describes her efforts to raise a family on her own despite hardships such as famine, disease, and poverty.
Add to this the show's gleeful embrace of absurdity, its fascination with apocalyptic gore ("Zombie Gus" is already a mini-meme) and the fact that the setting of "Breaking Bad" — the sun-baked suburbs of Albuquerque — consistently calls to mind exactly the kind of barren, post-housing-boom developments we're constantly seeing abandoned and left to rot.
Innovations are common, with teams constantly adopting or abandoning new tactics.
They get involved in multiple projects with the best of intentions, but eventually their interest pales, and they wind up either constantly fighting fires or abandoning the projects altogether.
(Think of Silicon Valley, where workers are constantly swapping places and abandoning safe jobs for ridiculous start-ups). By contrast, if no one leaves their jobs, voluntarily or otherwise, employers have less reason to hire and workers are too scared to quit.
In this culture, introverts are constantly pushed to abandon their true selves and be more outgoing, which generates feelings of guilt and may hinder creativity.
But it is a recipe for failure in such businesses as social media, where firms are constantly forced to abandon their plans and "pivot" to a new strategy, in markets that can change in the blink of an eye.Nor are long-termism and short-termism mutually exclusive.
Because they were constantly forced to abandon their pat answers to Socrates' annoying questions, they had to begin to think for themselves and to take individual responsibility for their claims about knowledge and value.
I constantly tried to abandon it.
