In my first BillG review when I was a PM on the Windows team, he called me a “dirty liar”. It’s was awesome. I think he said “dirty” because he was making an

In my first BillG review when I was a PM on the Windows team, he called me a “dirty liar”. It’s was awesome. I think he said “dirty” because he was making an effort to be nicer and say “fuck” less, and I think he caught himself mid-sentence and replaced “fucking liar” with the more PG rated “dirty liar”. He was calling me a liar because he thought he caught me saying something wrong. We were reviewing an approximately 80 page spec I’d written on changes we were planning to make to the Windows desktop, and I’d said essentially “all the visible changes apps will be able to make to the desktop will contained within the new Sidebar”. He thought I forgot about QuickLaunch icons. But in our plan we were going to move the QuickLaunch into the Sidebar too, so I was correct. Overall it was an amazing meeting - he was prepared, friendly, intelligent, on topic, and ready to go deep. I didn’t take any offense at his comment, he was really just having a conversation about the topic.