When I originally started studying psychology, one of the reasons were that I was fascinated by public discourse, in particular how it takes place on the internet, be it in sophisticated fora like newspaper comment sections, Youtube comments or under memes that have been shared to a point where the JPEG artefacts make them look […]
Working in sales means not using bullshit bingo as a cautionary joke, but rather as training material. /just suggested using the words “synergy,” “enable,” and “continously monitor and improve.” […]
Does a picture painted with fewer than a thousand words say more than a thousand words? […]
Let me paint you a picture. With words. It’s like a book, but I’m trying to sex it up. I’m at a meeting; we’re on the last bit so we’re doing a round to check if anybody has any comments. I take out my notebook to jot down a reminder. The round reaches my neighbor, […]
(Abbreviated) real discussion I had with a customer: Me: Sure, if think that “functionally correct” beats cool version number, I can install this fix. Customer: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=leeb I learned something, and am now ok with going live with this new more ‘leet than ‘let version 🙂 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=leeb […]
Sometimes you discover strange things about yourself. I, for example, discovered I might have a thing for late 90s German Eurodance. I was looking up an artist (let’s be honest, she’s probably closer to an “artist”) and discovered that not only did she do records for 10 years after the single song I knew. She […]