This is not the first thread to mention phrases, buzzwords or slang which you don’t personally care for. But it seems like it’s been a while. And I want to again lightly rant specifically about “filler” expressions which are basically meaningless.
After all, at the end of the day, not for nothing, it is what it is. Just saying. After all, agile AI aligns with our authentic brand identity. Breaking bread to bring to the table buy-in on baking in bleeding edge bang for the buck. Circling back to close the loop on actioneering a deep dive into frictionless, game changing customer journeys. Levelling up limitless learnings to move the needle, pivoting to peel the onion and reach out to square the circle. Right? If singing from the same hymn sheet, no need to reinvent the wheel. Wheel 3.0 is streamlined, solomo, and offers snackable content, but unpacks uplevel with unprecedented synergy to bring a world-class win-win which, being in our wheelhouse, thinks outside the box (since we have squared the circle… in 3D!!) to offer exceptional special sauce to the visionary influencer cohort of the Zillenial tribe…
Society agrees? The “whole-of-society response”? In my experience, it might take four people half an hour just to decide where to dine or what pizza to order. And that’s when all of them are hungry.
“Let’s just agree to disagree, o.k.?”
Translation: I don’t have a leg to stand on in this argument, so I’m calling it a tie to stop you from making any more points to support your position.
Anything 2.0 as in, “We have pork 2.0” or during the 2016 campaign, and idiot newscasters thought trump had learned his lesson, he was described as “Trump 2.0”. Stop. It’s overused and annoying.
I think the obnoxious is when someone makes a sweeping 100%-on-board statement about a 50% thing.
“As a society, let’s all agree that killing innocent civilians is wrong.” Okay, sure, but WHICH of the many warring factions (each of which has killed civilians) are you trying to get me to support or condemn!?
The ‘As a society’ thing seems like it might be code for ‘I would like my superficial and obvious, yet impossible-to-implement suggestion to sound really profound’
I hear grocery and fast food workers say all the time that raising their wages from $10 to $15 (in Massachusetts over the last few years) has caused the price of groceries and fast food to rise by more than 50% making them worse off. So they are opposed to future minimum wage increases.
Sometimes if really is that simple. Many people can’t do math or understand basic economics and are therefore easy to fool.
“It’s not over till it’s over” when it’s mathematically impossible or literally a one-in-a-million shot that the outcome you need comes about. But you will not start working on Plan B.
I believe a quote from Sir Terry Pratchett may be relevant. From Going Postal :
"You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravished, stripped of all true meaning and decency and then sent to walk the gutter for [story’s villain] Reacher Gilt, although ‘synergistically’ had probably been a whore from the start."
Well, when you’re synergizing paradigms, don’t forget to leverage your strengths in order that those paradigms can prove a net benefit to your stakeholders.
As a new thought leader I have to say that I am disappointed with some of the attitudes that I see here.
You may wonder in what field I am a thought leader. I am simply trying to get more people to think the thought that I think that I am a thought leader. And I have to start somewhere.