Is There a Fake Analogous Abbreviation?

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Asom: Aconyms are a way that you abbreviate complex terms or complex ideas. He says people have no idea wit mas abbreviations mean, because the abbreviation becomes the term. And so i think what you find is, look, if there were just a couple of acrinums, you're not going to hve a problem. But acrenums tend to beget alacrenums.

"The world is incredibly complicated, and humans necessarily use heuristics and analogies to process that complexity into simpler forms. These mental shortcuts are never perfect, but they should broadly summarize the complexity they represent while affording their user a sense of their limitations.

In that vein, I want to call attention to two lazy tech analogies that I’ve seen lately as examples of the kind of impoverished analogical thinking that the industry needs to actively avoid." - Danny Crichton

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