A little more thought, please

A little more thought, please I’ve spent most of my career working in technology, and I spend a lot of my working life online. Generally speaking, I think the Internet is a wonderful thing (social media excepted). But there are some things that really get on my nerves, ranging from minor irritations to things that make me question how we communicate and how little consideration we sometimes give to the people on the receiving end. So, in no particular order, here are a few things that have been winding me up lately. The language of warfare I recently saw a LinkedIn post from a defence company proudly explaining how its engineers were working alongside the British Army to “compress its kill chain”. Urgh. Kill chain. I understand that defence is a serious business, and that military operations have their own terminology. I also understand that the phrase has a specific operational meaning. But there’s something deeply uncomfortable about seeing a company celebrating its contribution to…

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