I've heard variants of this before, and while it's not wrong, I feel that once you're done telling a 200-word story to explain something, you'll have lost most

I've heard variants of this before, and while it's not wrong, I feel that once you're done telling a 200-word story to explain something, you'll have lost most of your audience. It's no longer an easy metaphor. They're not going to go back to their managers and tell a 200-word story, so you're limited to people you can talk to directly for a couple minutes. What I would say, to anyone old enough to have lived through the HD->SSD transition, is: "Quiet offices are an SSD for programmers' brains." It's short, it's simple, it's repeatable, it's understandable. I think it's more or less true, and it's hard to argue against SSDs. We buy our programmers SSDs for their computers, so why wouldn't we want them for their brains, too?