JA WestenbergIf you can’t make your point without using the words "leverage," "paradigm," or "ecosystem," you are hiding a weak argument behind expensive vocabulary
Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬@Daojoan "ecosystem" is the new hot buzzword at my workplace. Everything's an ecosystem these days
EndlessMason@Daojoan I definitely prefer this over people who complain about somebody saying "fuck" for emphasis
R. C. Salas@Daojoan Do I get bonus points for using all three in the same sentence?
Edge
Pēteris Krišjānis@Daojoan if you use potential at least two times, you are creating solution looking for problem
Andrew Deacon@Daojoan The one exception to this is if you are a bona fide Ecologist talking about Ecosystems.
Deborah Apthorp
Isaac Freeman@aadeacon Likewise if you are discussing the philosophy of science, or picking the best stick to dislodge a heavy rock.
In my experience the best way to discourage someone from using metaphors poorly in business talk is to take them very seriously and assume a level of precision they didn't intend.
Like, if we're in an ecosystem, let's draw a diagram of the food chain. We can't possibly plan a business strategy if we don't know what tropic level we're at. Are we a primary producer, some level of consumer, an apex predator, or a detritivore?
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Fish in the Percolator@Daojoan oh, are you saying I haven't found the synergy between the medium and the message?
clonedhuman@Daojoan Cornell's 'Bullshit Receptivity Scale' found that people who are impressed by that kind of language often struggle with analytical thinking and have poor decision-making skills: "“Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ empty rhetoric in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency,” a Cornell researcher said."
(probably worth noting how adept AI LLMs are at generating corporate-sounding bullshit)
🇪🇷Götterdämmerung@Daojoan This confuses the abuse of language with language itself. A dull mind can hide behind jargon but a sharp one can use precise terms to compress thought. The problem is less vocabulary itself & more like emptiness wearing it like jewelry.
More dangerously?
Jargon reveals weak listeners just as often as weak thinkers.
There are 2 kinds of people who complain about "expensive vocabulary": those who've been deceived by it & those who fear being excluded by it.
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Both resent the same thing but for different reasons.
Both resent the same thing but for different reasons.
Cedar Fen Farm
Cedar Fen Farm
Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"@Daojoan
Glad to see our narratives are in alignment…
Glad to see our narratives are in alignment…
Jeff Atwood@Daojoan (slowly moves hands together, interlocking fingers)
S Y N E R G I E S
David RenaudBut I feel empowered curating our corporate culture with these terms. Now I need to create a reimagined hack, dang it.
Comrade Weez@Daojoan anyone using 'onboarding' should be waterboarded
Aaruni Kaushik@Daojoan @achilleas but what if we leverage the new paradigm of consolidating ecosystem?