If I were to enact my own Reign of Terror on words in the culture, one would be when people say, “Welp…” in a tweet or a post.
“Welp, guess that didn’t work.” “Welp, back to the garage.”
Nails ===> Chalkboard.
Next, this “hack” movement of the past 10 years or so really boils my potato.
When people use the term hack, I get a bit nauseous and my eyes glaze over. Hacking, for those who don’t know, is a way of people trying to shortcut a system. Advocates for hacking are those who think that working smarter is better than working harder.
But all this time “hacking,” should be spent doing the work.
There is only one hack: Do the work.
Seth Godin writes that the long cut is the shortcut, that shortcuts are teases that sell the idea of getting where you want to go faster and with less tire wear.
Let’s put the term “hacking” as we know it today in a deep grave and bury it alive so it suffers.
