My cofounder Brian Kirk and our lead reporter Juliana Reyes joined me on the stage at this second annual Philly Geek Awards to introduce two categories. As last year, it was a special event and a great opportunity to poke a little at our friends and award show organizers Geekadelphia.
Watch me do something similar at the inaugural awards last year here. See a full recap of this year’s vent here.
There is no shortage of jokes and jabs at corporate jargon. But here’s another.
Though the Internet has its fair share of lists and collections and compilations and generators, I felt too few of them actually helped remind us what they really meant and why they’re so hated — a PC obfuscation of business politics.
So this isn’t meant to be as comprehensive as the ones above, but rather a set of ones I really hear and have really come to understand to have a different, somewhat more subtle meaning.
In the past few years, I’ve gotten a taste of some and felt it took time to learn the most common underlying meaning. I use a lot of these words and phrases, and I don’t necessarily think that’s all that bad. Instead, I list them to help remind myself that I can often be more direct. Here’s my best shot at helping the cause for the rest of us.
Continue reading Corporate jargon: a collection and translation of common business slang
This year, I have hired three reporters and worked with a handful of freelancers.
Here are some things I’ve learned about the process:
Continue reading Practical thoughts on the process of having recently hired reporters
Ubiquitous digital photography has changed our relationship with nostalgia.
I’ve gone through a predictable rebound effect; The number of photos I took exploded in the first decade of the 2000s and in the last few years I’ve tried to be choosier. Even though I came into my 20s with digital cameras, I’ll likely tell my children someday about how I once had many experiences without any camera handy — no cell phone, or at least not one with a reliable high-quality camera.
Continue reading Memories I don’t have photos to remember
If we are to build cities based in the so-called knowledge economy, one of the primary methods for judging its success should be very familiar: net exports.
In culture, ideas, concepts, general intellectual capital and, yes, even businesses and organizations, it may be worth questioning whether your city is mostly taking from others or mostly giving to others. Indeed, one wouldn’t only want to export knowledge — we always want to take ideas from others to get better — but a good sign of the success of a healthy region is the clustering of smart, creative people and their creating ideas, projects, businesses, ideas that are worth being shared elsewhere.