I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore
Dan Pallotta
I'd say that in about half of my business conversations, I have almost no idea what other people are saying to me. The language of internet business models has made the problem even worse. When I was younger, if I didn't understand what people were saying, I thought I was stupid. Now I realize that if it's to people's benefit that I understand them but I don't, then they're the ones who are stupid.
There are at least five strains of this epidemic.
Abstractionitis
We have forgotten how to use the real names of real things. Like doorknobs. Instead, people talk about the idea of doorknobs, without actually using the word "doorknob." So a new idea for a doorknob becomes "an innovation in residential access." Expose yourself repeatedly to the extrapolation of this practice to things more complicated than a doorknob and you really just need to carry Excedrin around with you all day.
Dan Pallotta
I'd say that in about half of my business conversations, I have almost no idea what other people are saying to me. The language of internet business models has made the problem even worse. When I was younger, if I didn't understand what people were saying, I thought I was stupid. Now I realize that if it's to people's benefit that I understand them but I don't, then they're the ones who are stupid.
There are at least five strains of this epidemic.
Abstractionitis
We have forgotten how to use the real names of real things. Like doorknobs. Instead, people talk about the idea of doorknobs, without actually using the word "doorknob." So a new idea for a doorknob becomes "an innovation in residential access." Expose yourself repeatedly to the extrapolation of this practice to things more complicated than a doorknob and you really just need to carry Excedrin around with you all day.
местами довольно мило 
BEST REASON NOT TO START COMPANY WITH YOUR SPOUSE
Michael Idov opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop, which then destroyed his life. “Within weeks, Lily and I — previously ensconced in an enviably stress–free marriage — were at each other’s throats. I hesitate to say which was worse: working the same shift or alternating. Each option presented its own small tortures. Two highly educated professionals with artistic aspirations have just put themselves — or, as we saw it, each other — on $8–per–hour jobs slinging coffee. After four more months, we grew suspicious of each other’s motives, obsessively kept track of each other’s contributions to the cause (“You worked three days last week!”), and generally waltzed on the edge of divorce. The marriage appears to have been saved by a well–timed bankruptcy.”
BEST REASON NOT TO START COMPANY WITH YOUR SPOUSE
Michael Idov opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop, which then destroyed his life. “Within weeks, Lily and I — previously ensconced in an enviably stress–free marriage — were at each other’s throats. I hesitate to say which was worse: working the same shift or alternating. Each option presented its own small tortures. Two highly educated professionals with artistic aspirations have just put themselves — or, as we saw it, each other — on $8–per–hour jobs slinging coffee. After four more months, we grew suspicious of each other’s motives, obsessively kept track of each other’s contributions to the cause (“You worked three days last week!”), and generally waltzed on the edge of divorce. The marriage appears to have been saved by a well–timed bankruptcy.”
Alpas: 
Плюс за Коко.
dini: живой 3–знак в 2011 о_О
это все равно, что пегаса встретить на фабрике салями.
это все равно, что пегаса встретить на фабрике салями.
ZorgeZorge: "Но… как?" Номера же только на лепре восстановили же?
dini: в профиле т8орца есть скрипт
для тех, кто спешит:
в твиттер