I got banned from Gleb's intentional insights for speaking my mind about this article.
This argues for creation of pseudo-speak or 1984 newspeak where commonly understood word gets a new "fuzzier" meaning...
"I'm a weird lawyer, I sometimes like when my clients lose" lets me forget that I'm actually paid to be an advocate for any client that retained me.
Play out a few examples in your mind and you see how quickly very firm word-concepts lose meaning
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I got banned from Gleb's intentional insights for speaking my mind about this article.
This argues for creation of pseudo-speak or 1984 newspeak where commonly understood word gets a new "fuzzier" meaning...
"I'm a weird lawyer, I sometimes like when my clients lose" lets me forget that I'm actually paid to be an advocate for any client that retained me.
Play out a few examples in your mind and you see how quickly very firm word-concepts lose meaning