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> Bullshit is organizational self-deception

I have known companies that were entirely run on the stuff. C-levels and wannabe C-levels would spew it in every direction. It was simply a signaling mechanism that you were a company player. It was so patent that it could serve no other purpose. If one rotated it the correct way, it was not unlike a Monty Python sketch.

At some point I had a list of banned words, because they had lost all meaning, turning only into rest stop on a Markov chain road-trip. It simply wasn't possible to think with them, the Sapir-Whorf-Frankfurt Hypothesis.




How did they convince their customers they we're worth paying?


It was a mid-range casual gaming publisher. Most of the BS wasn't obviously customer facing.




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