Index

A

  • abstract language versus concrete
  • acronyms
  • ADD (attention-deficit disorder)
  • adult ADD
  • Airbnb
  • Amazon
  • AOL
  • ambiguity
  • APIs (application programming interfaces)
  • applications, downloading
  • Armstrong, Tim, firing of Abel Lenz
  • assumptions about audience
  • asynchronicity of e-mail
  • attention spans
  • audience
    • assumptions about
    • feelings about message
    • for Message Not Received
    • silence
  • author history

B

  • Ballmer, Steve
    • memo
  • Bassett Healthcare
  • benefits versus features
  • Bezos, Jeff
  • Bezos, MacKenzie
  • Big Data
  • Bitcoin
  • bloatware
  • bounded rationality
  • Breaking Bad
    • communications relationships
    • Grey Matter (company)
    • Vamanos Health
  • busyness, cult of
  • buzzwords
    • consultants
    • context
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

C

  • celebrities of tech
  • change, speed of
  • Charette, Robert
  • chat rooms
  • clarity in communication, necessity
  • cloud computing
  • cognitive computing
  • coining terms
  • collaboration
    • Vamanos Health
  • colloquialisms
  • Comcast, account cancellation attempt
  • communicate
    • definition
    • necessity
  • communication
    • clarity in, necessity
    • deficiency as the norm
    • medium options
    • necessity
    • non-verbal
    • pervasive
    • project failure rates
    • reviewing past
  • communications, author’s background in
  • concrete terms versus abstract
  • confirmation bias
    • feedback and
  • confirmatory bias
  • conformity experiments
  • consultants’ buzzwords
  • context
  • Cook, Tim
  • Cortana (Microsoft)
  • creative destruction
  • crowdfunding
  • CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), product launch information
  • cult of busy
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

D

  • data cited
  • decision ...

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