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Accidental Tech Podcast

148: Your Feelings Are Real

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I was looking at something and then jumped away.

0:02.1

Is that the kind of experience you want to provide me?

0:06.1

Paul Loft said that there is actually a term, just like there is for everything in business,

0:10.3

like parking lot and all, or staff all, or whatever the hell we're going to talk about.

0:15.1

For the concept, I think I described on an earlier show, people in middle management are motivated

0:21.7

to make things that are bad, not sound quite as bad when they talk to their boss,

0:25.6

because if you're telling your boss bad news, your boss will be like,

0:29.0

why is this bad news happening?

0:30.4

Is it the reason we pay you to make bad things not happen?

0:34.6

And so as it goes up the management chain, say you start with the truth down at the leaf nodes,

0:38.6

but the time we get to the CEO, what does a disaster problem doesn't sound so bad?

0:42.8

And the term for that is green shifting, which is a plan red shifting,

0:46.0

just like in other galaxies that are racing away from us and the wavelengths of light coming from

0:49.9

stretch towards the red side of the visible light spectrum.

0:52.8

So all the galaxies are stars and stuff are red shifted.

0:55.6

Green shifting is how things get nicer as they go off the org chart.

0:58.9

So that's a great term. I had not heard it before, but it's a real thing.

1:04.2

I'd not heard that either.

1:05.6

I never heard it.

1:06.8

You can use green shifting.

1:08.8

I don't know. Your org chart at home isn't quite deep enough.

1:11.1

Maybe like when hops does something terrible outside,

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