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		toomanybeersies on Nov 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doubleclicking on the Web (2015) I'm going to start using that in my meetings, alongside "drill down", "circle back", and "take it offline". Office Space became a lot less funny when I started living it.

mauvehaus on Nov 5, 2020 | [–]

My person pet peeve jargon is people who use surface in sentences like "what ideas does this surface?"

Unless you're a submarine, surface isn't a verb!

Thorrez on Nov 6, 2020 | | [–]

That's pretty common, there are 53,000 results for "surfaced a problem":

https://www.google.com/search?q="surfaced+a+problem"

prox on Nov 5, 2020 | [–]

Looks like someone has a case of the mondays ;)

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