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Reminds me of a favorite I heard recently:
9 women can’t have a baby in a month.
That one is actually genius tho
That’s a very, very common project management analogy.
I choose to believe that the fact that I had only just recently heard it for the first time means I have made some very good choicesin my life.
They changed “circle back to it” to “triangle back to it”. This person must be fun at work. You make something that is slightly off but sounds familiar and everyone goes into a state of self-doubt of “maybe I remembered it wrong, they must be right”. 😂 “Idea fridge” is probably some kind of backlog or product backlog.
My company ‘continuous improvement’ department use the ‘Parking lot’ to throw away the ideas that dont fit their pre-planned brain-storming. Good idea, it just not in the scope right now, but we’ll put it in the parking lot.
Unironically, I think “put that in the idea fridge” is good because it’ll keep the idea at a lower temperature and prevent it from spoiling as fast so you can eat it later
It’s better than “back burner” because if you forget something there it’ll burn on the bottom.
That’s usually the goal.
I’m not convinced, but I’ll put that in the idea fridge so we can triangle back later.
Sometimes you need to put it in the idea oven, because it wasn’t fully baked
I’ve used just about everything as a stand in for money in conversations.
39 ghost tails? Too expensive for me.
No one seems to notice.
I always do gumballs. Easy conversion, just strange enough to turn heads.
Had a marketing co-worker (semiconductor industry) who managed to get C-level execs to use the phrase “tea-bagging” to refer to sending hardware samples to various reviewers or journalists. It was endlessly amusing to hear in a company-wide presentation. He was so proud.
I’m sure Nate’s had other career highlights since then, but that was certainly an early success.
That man is a genius unparalleled
Making me think of how the cardinals were “raw dogging” when deciding the new pope
I’ve heard DB has a sounding board
We don’t use words because they mean something. They mean something because we use them.
Well, it feeds back into itself. It’s vicious triangle.
context -> meaning -> usage -> contextIt really is a triangle huh. Great idea we just had, whoever said that. I think this idea really came out of the room. Let’s get this cooking on the front burner of the idea stove and infinitigon back around to it when we all have bandwidth.
I’m not entirely convinced, but I see the potential merit. Maybe let’s just let that greased idea pig loose and see if a farmer tries to wrestle it.
We’ll give this idea fox a day’s head start before we release the dev dogs and go hunt it
This guy knows how to synergize . Blue sky thinking.
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When my last startup failed the fridge hadn’t been cleaned for months.
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
This is just LinkedIn live action role play
Tbh I like the principle of an idea fridge.
It can be easily understood as something that is paused, and only paused, for a short period of time but then continued.
The rest I don’t quite see the usefulness.
And like most things in my fridge it’ll get thrown out in a week or so, when it inevitably goes off due to non-use. For some reason I feel much happier about throwing away food after it’s been mildly chilled for 14 days.
Yeah, the idea fridge is where you put an idea you don’t want right now but you feel guilty about throwing it out right away. So you let it sit in there until it has undeniably gone bad and you have to throw it out, but it’s not your fault because you were totally going to take it back out but you couldn’t have predicted that it would spoil. Oh well, can’t do anything about that.
Maybe we can also have an “Idea Gym” - you’ll constantly pay for the idea of using it in the future. You don’t cancel the idea gym membership because you feel bad about losing access to the idea, even though the chances of ever taking up the idea are very slim.
So technical debt?
I see you’ve seen our Jira boards. Please don’t look too closely at the dates on those tickets.
The operations team closed all open merge requests older than 2 years at my firm recently.
I got notices for tasks I had started going back to 2018.
When you triangle back to something, you return to it after 3 sharp turns instead of gradually coasting around like a circle. Its more efficient.
If someone said this to me I would at least expect them to get back to me in a reasonable amount of time, and that sounds like a clear enough next step.
People forget that the terminology is literally just a shorthand for a metaphor that made sense to someone once.
Due to historical circumstances it’s made of a blend of US military jargon, Japanese auto manufacturing, IT terminology, and terminology from a hodge podge of filler humanities degrees people got because of degree requirements.It sounds weird because the history is weird, but it’s still words people liked and found useful.
I’d use some of them just because they’re funny.
To me “idea freezer” just reads as someone trying to find the phrase “icebox” as it is already commonly used concept in project management tools.
Idea fridge is like “table that for now” but more long term.
Unlike “put a pin in it” we dont have to look at it for the time being.
it’s explicitly said this all was made up you’re just guessing meaning where there’s none
Na this is real. Even office language is fluid and coworkers love improvising all turns of phrase. Besides, just because the author isn’t intending to convey information through something doesn’t mean that there is no meaning to derive. Relenting to the idea there is no meaning without at least trying to find one is just a practice in being ignorant. Language is abstract and subjective and when you think you’re being random you can accidentally reveal more than you might think. Either way it’s at least fun to guess what these coworkers came away thinking these phrases mean
Movies, paintings, poems and music are all made up as well so people have just been guessing meaning where there is none
Yes, and it’s fun
This is how language is acquired.
Back in the 1990s, a colleague and I manage to get the “Performance Enterprise Network Information System” project endorsed and launched across a team of several hundred people. Someone remarked it was a bit of a mouthful. We were very proud.
Doesn’t seem very hard until you’re actually messing around with it hands-on.
We don’t need that project anymore, let’s just slide it into a hole somewhere
As you should be
If I ever get hired to a workplace like this, just shoot me immediately before I start my first day.
I visit other people’s offices from time to time as part of my job. I take every opportunity I can get to sneak into unused meeting rooms to draw a comprehensively labelled Actualising Hexagon Methodology on the whiteboard for others to find
Can you give us a doodle so we know what you’re talking about?
It’s a constantly evolving work in progress, but if you take a stripped-down version of the Delta Synergizing Septagon and combine it with a recontextualized boosted Growth Pentagon and add the sharp bits of the Meatatomy Penticle then you can figure out the rest from there. Just don’t forget the 9 Elements on the outside and Degloving Dave in the centre
Hexagon methodology: powering the transition from computers to comphreeters, one keyboard are a time!
I’m a brother in the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity, we have the sacred hexagon (6 carbon ring). The Actualizing Hexagon might be interesting.
I need this.
I’m circling back, much smoother ride.
This is essentially how living language works.
Gay meant showy and carefree as in we’ll have a gay ol’ time! In the late 19th and early 20th centuries gay became a euphemism for fellows who liked the company of other men for romance instead of women, as those dudes were, well, a bit queer, and it wasn’t polite to talk about such things in mixed company. People in the mlm category often expressed showiness and had a carefree (family-light) lifestyle and so other conversants generally caught on.
Heck, there’s kind of a euphemism revolution going on in social media since posts and comments can commonly be flagged for talking about delicate subjects, and keywords can draw the notice of uninvited readers (and put people on watch lists). Hence suicide becomes unlife, rape becomes grape, Israel becomes Is-not-so-real and so on.
Recently, a correspondent started using blood libel as a noun referring to those outrageous MAGA lies used to demonize outgroups, such as They’re eating the dogs! It’s much the way the original blood libel was an accusation against Jewish folk (used by the Nazis, but it didn’t originate with them). I picked it up quickly.
(Blood libels are more effective if they’re implausible since they serve for costly signaling. By chirping out one in conversation, a MAGA signals their nature to other MAGA while sounding unhinged to anyone else.)
When I read let’s triangle back on that I interpreted it to mean, going back to the desk to verify facts and develop the idea, stopping in the lunch room for a snack, and coming back to the next meeting, well prepared. That makes sense to me.
The idea refrigerator sounds like what someone might suggest if they don’t know the expression to table that [idea] for now. Greenbeards sonetimes get confused by tabling used as a verb. I think it’s unintuitive.
This dude’s new lexicon may have been random, but we human beings are so good at constellationing (seeing intent and skill in simple video-game AI) that we’ll find meaning in word salad by inference and intuition.
(It’s also how Trump can spout gibberish and his base reads it as four-dimensional chess. Those of us more savvy, recognize a fast talk and flim-flam when we see it, sometimes from the experience of being fooled by confidence ploys before.)
if they don’t know the expression to table that [idea] for now. Greenbeards sonetimes get confused by tabling used as a verb. I think it’s unintuitive.
This one is tricky because it goes opposite ways across the pond. In the UK Parliament to table a bill means they’re going to bring it up for consideration right now. In fact bills and motions under consideration are actually laid out on that central table in the House of Commons.
In US Congress, a motion to lay on the table is a request to halt consideration on a bill for an indefinite (and probably infinite) period. There is no physical table in the US Congress where dead bills are placed.
posts and comments can commonly be flagged for talking about delicate subjects, and keywords can draw the notice of uninvited readers (and put people on watch lists).
Tangential thought: and when I engage with such delicate topics, my keyboard sometimes glitches & spontaneously switches to Russian, and that’s how big brother reminds me they’re watching & listening, so I’d best behave! 😜 Literally happened a few minutes ago on a delicate topic regarding Israel/Palestine genocide 😓 My keyboard glitched & switched to Russian 🤔
If you’re on either windows or Linux, a keyboard layout or language needs to be added to your settings to switch between the two with a hotkey combination. No idea where the setting currently is in windows (it became very mobile when MS started moving settings around all the time), but in KDE, it’s under keyboard settings. There will be a language and then a layout, plus a key combination for switching between the two (IIRC in windows, the key combo might not even be on the same page).
Though another possibility is there’s a hardware switch on the keyboard itself or maybe a custom driver if you had to install anything to use that keyboard.
Anyways, maybe that information will help in looking into what’s actually going on (maybe your key combo is something you hit when talking about the forbidden topics) or stop it from happening (by removing the Russian language and keyboard layout if you don’t normally have reason to use them).
This all happens on my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. I plead ignorance to “windows, Linux, hotkey combination, MS, KDE,” etc. I have no idea what any of that means. I deliberately have 2 language options installed on my keyboard to amuse my toddler-level proficiency in Russian & use it occasionally for funsies, but to switch languages on my keyboard requires some deliberate effort. Every time it glitches & switches languages on its own in the middle of my thumb pecking out English sentences, it spooks me. And I attribute it to big brother because what else can I do 🤷🏼♀️
That’s paranoia.
Don’t be paranoid. Do pay attention, identify patterns.
That’s why you need autistic people in a team.
Business jargon comes from soldiers when they joined the corporate world after ww2. https://youtu.be/HSbYUEaAwLI
So if you use jargon you basically engage in Tactical LARPing. Might as well use fantasy words and LARP as a wizard in the office.
There has probably always been business jargon, because every specialized field develops its own jargon.
For example, “benchmark” is used in various fields in a loose sense of a point of reference that you use to judge other things. But, it originally comes from surveying where it was a mark cut into stone to secure a “bench”, a kind of bracket used for mounting the levelling staff.
There’s also probably a lot of business jargon from the “Scientific Management” process created by Frederick Winslow Taylor. He was extremely influential in the business community, and no doubt coined lots of terms that are still in use today.
