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September 16, 2026

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Acronyms which are less than ideal

This week, from the Beta Plane: Beta-Jeffrey does his own research. I bet you’ll never read ICP the same again.

Six panel cartoon with a black background, indicating this is happening in the Beta plane. Jeffrey misunderstands RatBoss's use of the term ICP.
Tam O’Shanter?

Have you ever worked for a company where the acronyms are so rampant and specific, you all start to forget what they mean? One place I worked was always talking about Glue meetings. No one, not even the people attending the meetings, knew if it was Glue, like ‘holding things together’ or GLUE, an acronym whose meaning was lost to time. We only knew it was when the ELT got together to discuss the OKRs, KPIs and RACI models.

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