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Speedo-Shaped Skillset
- bsilvereagle 2y agoIf you like this model you may also enjoy “paint drip people” https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people
- from-nibly 2y agoI like this better.
- yodon 2y agoAll abstractions are leaky. Some are useful. You can always overthink a metaphor if you choose to.
- fortyseven 2y agoYou have a leaky speedo?
- neilv 2y agoYou probably don't want to adopt this metaphor. Imagine someone saying it in a meeting that includes people other than some homogeneous group that thinks it's funny and clever and appropriate. If you saw someone else making that mistake, you might have to interrupt them diplomatically.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoIf I'm in a meeting, and two of the other people are one who used this metaphore, and one who complained that it's inappropriate, I know which one I would rather not work with. This even though I myself would not reach for that imagery in that context.
- axus 2y agoIt's better to raise issues than to silently ignore them. Person 1 and Person 2 shouldn't face ongoing problems for expressing themselves once.
- neilv 2y ago> If I'm in a meeting, and two of the other people are one who used this metaphore, and one who complained that it's inappropriate, I know which one I would rather not work with. Most people wouldn't complain. But a lot of people would think this was inappropriate, think a little less of the person doing it, and most of all be bothered if this seemed to be condoned. I said "diplomatically", because you need to stop the cringe, you need to signal to those bothered that it's one person's brief oops rather than a tone-deaf culture, and you need to help the someone who did an oops be left where they can easily repair any damage. I'm not an expert, and I'd play it by ear, but in the scenarios I imagine, if the speaker kept going on about it, someone should halt it as delicately as possible. "Sorry, could we change the slide, and summarize the points without the metaphor? Thanks; just an aversion to Speedos, heh." (Alternatively, you could let the person dig themselves in further, which could easily turn into an acute culture/morale problem, and it could also easily turn into an HR-liability-type problem.)
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- TacticalCoder 2y agoThat's so uncool. As in: some people are cool, others simply don't understand cool. Surfers are cool. Surfers for the very most part don't wear speedos.
- deafpolygon 2y agoWhy speedo? Why not bikini?
- antisthenes 2y agoThis is just a T-shaped skillset described by one of those people who are oddly-allergic to using already existing terminology and have to invent their own.
- perihelion_zero 2y ago[flagged]