Tag: rhetoric
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🤖 Building Influence in Enterprises
Original: Our Favorite Management Tips on Building Influence – HBR Editors. Summarized by Claude AI on September 25, 2026. Wield influence when you lack authority. Pushing harder creates resistance, so work indirectly. Find whose opinions people actually seek, use low-stakes back channels, time your ask for when powerful people aren’t distracted, broker missing relationships, and…
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Shitting in the field, but plated in the dining room
[The Normans] gave English its double vision, which is the source of both the beauty and the mess. After 1066 you’ve got the Saxon peasantry keeping the Germanic words for the muddy daily grind and the Norman lords laying French over the top for everything refined, so English ends up with two words for everything…
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“How you like them apples?”
The phrase “How do you like them apples?” (or “How you like them apples?”) likely originates from American slang in the early 20th century, though its exact origin is debated. It generally conveys a sense of triumph, challenge, or one-upmanship. Possible Origins: World War I Artillery Slang (1910s) – British and American soldiers referred to…
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