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How to seem smart in meetings without really trying
- imchillyb 11y agoYes, yes, great information there. But, does it scale?
- kefka 11y agoNo. You're all to heavy as it is.
- LanceH 11y agoIf the list were 25 long we could make bingo cards for this. I'm trying to come up with a way to use that Venn diagram. Getting everyone to agree we need to be in that overlap between "what we know" and "what we don't know" would be priceless.
- diminoten 11y agoI just realized the company I work for has a whole set of PR shit that talks about the "security gap". Take a guess at what that gap consists of.
- LanceH 11y agoI would have to guess it's an overlap between "what we don't know" and "what we think we know", which is a bit easier to justify than the diagram in the article. I also feel like this whole new field of "gap analysis" arose from what this article is poking fun at.
- pliftkl 11y ago"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld
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- amelius 11y agoOr ask somebody to draw three lines on a whiteboard that are mutually perpendicular ([1]) [1] The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch), www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
- kefka 11y agoso, and X, Y, and a Z axis. Done.
- greymadder 11y agoThey'll think I'm the smartest person in the room because I say "I wish I was dead." Wow.
- hairyasian 11y agoat least half of these occur daily regardless of where i work...