I know that many of my readers do not work in Silicon Valley. As a writer, and a teacher of writing, I am acutely aware of how off-putting insider lingo can be. Here's how we talk day to day:
Scope creep
Iteration
Monetize
Page config
Style Sheets
RSS
Navigation
Interactivity
Connectivity
Load
Dev
Scrum
Server
Architecture
Surfacing
Categorization
Bandwidth
Granularity
Sprint
Epic
UI
Interface
Program
Content
Noise
Signal
Back office
Front office
Release
Keystroke
Usability
Click tracks
QA
Pipe
Colo
Toolbar
User-generated
Pixels
Optimize
Tables
Link
Post
ITS
Chip
Memory
Functionality
Feature Set
Html
File sharing
Mouse over
Flouts
Scroll down
CPC
IP
Xml
Resin
NetApp
DNS
API
Objects
Template
A build
Recency
If you have any questions, please ask me. But please do not expect that I can actually answer them. Because I am a student in the Valley, not a teacher. There is a lot of meaning imbedded in this dialect, but it reveals itself only slowly, like the skins peeling off an onion, or a lovely woman taking off her clothes.
The end result is a beauty you can only appreciate by engaging your heart. Very few, perhaps no others will say this, but the march of technology that engulfs us scares even those creating it. We don't know where it is headed, but we hope it will result in a better world, a more loving place.
Math, meet English Literature.
Philosophy, meet Physics.
Man meet woman. No, wait a minute, that would be a plug for Match.com. Oh well, you get the general drift, or as Google's search results would have it, the Zeitgeist (Google's Year Review Product)of this particular moment in your life and in mine...
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