Here's a fun software industry rendition of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Peter Cohan of marketing / demo consultancy The Second Derivative, entitled 'Twas the Night Before the Big Demo.
Here's my favorite excerpt, from the middle of the poem:
Enjoy.
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Imagine you’re walking down a beach and find a watch. You pick it up, inspect its intricate mechanism, admire how precisely all the pieces fit together, and conclude that something so complex and precisely engineered couldn’t possibly have arisen by chance: there must have been a designer. Wait.
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In an era where it seems that every conversation is being recorded, there should be a sign outside every board meeting that reads: “Your notetaker is not welcome here.” By “your notetaker,” I mean any AI notetaker. A personal one that follows you from meeting to meeting – whether a meeting