This week, our cube-cows learn the true meaning of TLA: Three-Letter Acronym, also known as ‘strategy, but shorter.’

Ni lava, ni presta la batea skewers the lazy obstructive type: won’t wash, hoards the tub, and still blocks collective work; the sting is active blockage, not just idleness.

When the room answers with a diagram instead of a name, responsibility thins until no one owns it but everyone defends it.

This week, we optimize AI the old-fashioned way: less guidance, more performance reviews.

Clear the loops; keep the stop. Emergency halt, not a panacea.

A place so remote that even the devil bails, underwear and all.

The organisation asks for risk on paper, but the living reward is quiet and safe words on the way up.

This week, AI arrives to ‘unlock our potential’, and quietly locks the herd into a lifetime of premium vendor subscriptions.

Patience in the spirit, crude resistance in the backside: a Venezuelan joke for bureaucracy, annoying people, and close friends who trade a knowing smile.

If the bill for long-term damage arrives after your window, the room acts like it never happened.