General

This can speak for itself:

The word is lessons

Here’s the scoop

Using separate language allows for separate behavior.

When a person speaks a corporate language instead of regular-person language, they behave in corporate ways instead of regular-person ways.

Which means they’d do things and accept things as a corporate person that regular-person they would not accept.

Here’s the request

Stop contributing to this system! Use the word lessons instead of learnings.

P.S.

Learnings makes you sound like a damn clown. Even if everybody says it — they all sound like clowns.

No Learnings

I don’t know how many times I’ve advocated for people to finally drop the “learnings” crap. I’ve hated it since day one, but have had to listen to it for years. I just wish I had had the idea to create a website like this. Someone else did it, though, and that makes me happy.

At this point, I’ve kept at least one blog for about twenty years. There have been times when I’ve kept several at once and others when I’ve kept only one or two. The itch to create new blogs means I am constantly doing so. This one is no exception.

With that said, let me introduce it.

Systemberg is a blog that I, Alex Seifert, will use to post commentary about whatever he finds that catches my interest. Sometimes, the posts are political in nature and other times they are about technology. Most of the time there will be a mix.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed or find me on Mastodon or Bluesky.

If you are looking for more in-depth posts about technology, you can find that on my personal blog, Alex’s Notebook.

You can find more information about me on my online portfolio. I also write for other blogs which can be found here.