No, not Eclairs, but I thought I'd mention them here just because Lisa seems amused by discussions of food.
E is for EVOLVE.
1 : EMIT
2 a : DERIVE, EDUCE b : to produce by natural evolutionary processes c : DEVELOP, WORK OUT <evolve social, political, and literary philosophies — L. W. Doob>
intransitive verb : to undergo evolutionary change
Good words tend to get lots of definitions. We milk them, if you will, for everything we can.
Evolve. Adapt. Improve. These are basically the tools of survival. Fall down? Stand up. Fail? Learn from it, try again. Get beaten? Learn from the defeat and win the next round.
I once told someone that I would someday be one of the smartest people in the world because I make so many mistakes here and now. The difference from one to the next is an evolution.
A big business buzzword these days is "continual improvement". It basically means that companies are coming to the realization that getting locked into policies and procedures, repetition and rote, basically cut off future improvement. Big entities unlike people don't have the same natural evolution because they specifically cut themselves off from that sort of variance from consistency.
The whole digital press world is an evolution. The old model of book printing is scared. The day when you walk into a bookstore and ask for any title ever made is not far off. The clerk will feed your request into a printer and in a half-hour – maybe less – you'll have your new shiny copy of Driving…Adam Crazy or Lost and Found. This is evolution.
Evolve or die.
–Robert