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Buckminster Fuller was obsessed with the word "dymaxion". It's like "X" with Musk.
Yeah well you can have a nice little dymaxion nap in your dymaxion house after driving home from your dymaxion job in your dymaxion car.
For reference:
Dymaxion house:
Dymaxion car:
The car - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
The dymaxion nap is a reference to polyphasic sleep which Fuller did for a while. To the best of my knowledge there is no dymaxion job.
It's a portmanteau of DYnamic MAXimum tensION. All the things he labeled with the term were supposed to follow a unifying design principle of maximum performance for minimal energy input, based on carefully optimized interplay of internal forces. In the case of the map, this manifested in the minimizing geographic distortion.
There is actually a second Dymaxion projection which preserves contiguity of water rather than land