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Welcome to the home of all things bullshit.

I’m Kevin Duncan, author and Plain English commentator, and I’ve been collecting corporate gobbledygook for over 40 years. My first dictionary brought it all together in one place for the first time, with over 1,500 entries and explanations. The Business Bullshit Book added hundreds more, and the list is now over 2,000 examples. There is an Indian version for anyone in that part of the world, and there are e versions with cartoons and audio.

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ENSHITTIFICATION

Tech critic Cory Doctorow has coined a new phrase for the decay process in online platforms: enshittification. First they are good to their users, then they abuse them to make things better for their business customers, and finally they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Charming.

From The Observer 12/3/23

Sweat and stretch

This is the sort of macho crap that gives business a bad name. This founder wants his staff to sweat and stretch, never settle, shoot for the moon, deliver “wow”, never lose north and push the envelope. Honestly, you’d have thought he wanted to get rich at someone else’s expense or something. Oh, hang on a minute…. Sunday Times Jan 22