Coté
Coté
American Christmas
Only In American
Still warm tortillas.
Adults wearing joke t-shirts.
Yoga pants.
Free packets of ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise.
Ice with every drink.
75 mph.
Little plastic shopping bags.
No GDPR pop-ups.
20% tips before checkout.
Donuts.
Right turn on red.
Ice machine in fridge.
Very big bowls.
Eggs in the fridge
California wine.
Closed blinds.
Toilet next to bathtub/shower combo.
Formal dining room.
Formal living room.
The soothing hum of lawnmowers in the distance.
Strawberries as big as oranges, oranges as big as grapefruits, grapefruits as big as infant’s heads.
Cucumbers.
Football.
Door knobs.
Exhausted from walking around the mall.
Chili’s.
F150.
Resistance to change
What makes his pieces extra great is that he’s not just some PowerPointing bozo like me: he actually did all this stuff in large organizations, last at Sky UK.
My content
On this week’s Software Defined Talk Brandon discussed my business bullshit dictionary project, going over longer thinking for each term. Listen in!
And if total don’t want to devote an hour to business bullshit, here’s the quick videos on each phrase.
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What next for digital government and Government as a Platform? - UK government centralized IT.
Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal. - It’s the trust busting era for tech!
Developer burnout caused by flawed productivity metrics - This software isn’t late, you just messed up your estimates of when it was due.
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