Corporate Methanes
I’ve been working in Silicon Valley for 40 years now. I’ve worked at three startups, two major corporations, consulted, and been on the board of a couple startups. For the most part, I’m a worker bee. Over the years, I’ve noticed a prolific use of cliché terms used by people in the industry. Mostly managers and drones. Drones being the members of any company that nobody can figure out what their real use is to the company or hive. You know them, the people that drone on in meetings spewing lots of corporate speak cliché terms trying hide the fact they don’t have the slightest idea how to make the companies honey. Sometimes they drone on so much our mind wanders and we soon aren’t paying attention. You need to pay attention though, drones seem to hold a special place in the hive, which interests the queen quite a bit. For some reason, the queen will always put drones in charge of stuff, while we wait for the next big inception. While the worker bees often find drones an...