Comment by red-iron-pine
9 hours ago
The Gervais Principle by the Ribbonfarm guy gets into this: powertalk vs. babytalk
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
the Cornell article is basically just empirical testing of these concepts.
Also summarised in https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of...
this reads like an AI clickbait.
it does make Rao's original article a little easier to digest but it was already pretty tight through the first 3-4 parts.