Sentence examples for self aka from inspiring English sources

The "quantified self" – AKA, in the words of writer and editor Paul Carr, "vanity metrics" – began in California, naturally, so that beautiful people could measure just how much more beautiful the number of steps they had taken were making them.

Beyond the surface similarities to sticker sharing, the bigger underlying trend here is of course the quantifiable self — aka the increasing options and ease for people to measure, slice and dice their own participation with a service/gadget.

Call the emerging self the "Plural Self" (aka, the Superself).

We deny, minimize and try to gloss over the more wrinkle-y, annoyed, sad, blah, mundane self (aka the shadow).

Self-reliant, self-regulating, aka Geneva Garvin.

As 2017 dawns, we have entire fleets of vehicles for both commercial and consumer use moving toward self-driving, aka computer control.

A yoga teacher's instruction, what the teacher says -- how they direct their students -- and what they deliver, informs how You, the student of Life, applies this knowledge base that will either add more to your evolution and expansion or will detract health and contract You into an unconscious self-sabotager, aka injury on the mat, or in our life, work, play or our day, somewhere.

"Self regulation, aka the rabbits guarding the lettuce patch, is only partially effective," he said.

Osbon: My brief observation is that self regulation, aka the rabbits guarding the lettuce patch, is only partially effective.

As it happens, Voltaire's maxim may also be useful in explaining what will happen in the field of autonomous vehicles, aka self-driving cars.

They are the unprotected outsiders, the self-employed workers aka freelancers.