Julia Carrie Wong and Matthew Cantor’s How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained was pretty hilarious. A little something in there to offend everyone.
Speaking of kinda douchey words, I’m reminded of one of my favorite sites on the internet: Unsuck It. Not only does it call out a ton of terms for being, uh, sucky, but suggests unsucky alternatives.
Bubble Up
Thank you for pointing out that issue. I’ll be sure to bubble that up.
Unsucked: Tell someone with more authority.
Powwow
Oh, yes! That’s very important to me. Let’s have a powwow about this first thing tomorrow.
Unsucked: Yet more unthinking appropriation of Native American culture. Meeting.
Solutioneering
Unsucked: Thinking.
On a somewhat related note, there’s the ol’ swoop and poop which is also a thing.
