business communication
Solutions – and how you call what you offer
On ‘solutions’ and when a word becomes dirty. I’ve picked up on a general dissent about use of the word ‘solutions’ lately. The suggestion is that it’s one of those meaningless management-speak words thoughtlessly and lazily slotted into a sentence because It Will Do. Is the flak because it’s a vague, catch-all word, used when [...]
The shifting semantics of ‘application(s)’
What is an application? When should you change the name you’ve given to something? When the terms around that name is shift, however subtly? When its meaning evolves, adapts and dramatically changes? Your best friend at primary school might have been called Timmy, but he probably doesn’t introduce himself as Timmy today. (He might, but the [...]
Scrooge: a fan of 2010 tech?
Zooming out “..every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.” Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens Sitting in the audience of a West End theatre for the first time in a long time this [...]
