Words I learned to hate in our industry: wordsmithing and verbiage 🙄. Anyone else with words that make your skin crawl?

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Happy Monday

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"Leverage"

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Reach out...

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Bespoke

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Your deck is not sexy. Your idea is not sexy. Please stop saying that things are sexy.

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Moist

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'Pop'

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One-Pager

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"Creative" as a noun. #selfloathing

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Ideate

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Disruption

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Ladder up

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Bandwidth

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Optimize

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Snackable

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Low hanging fruit

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"Choiceful"

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Hacking

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Premium or big enough

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High-level.

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Concepting

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