Reflection Number 3: Define your own terms
Back in the world of a corporate trainee, I sit in the partner’s office. Alas, the office is devoid of cacti, and the building has no lake outside of it to speak of, but the odour of OCD does permeate the air. I’ve produced a mighty fine piece of written advice. The partner has other ideas and sees fit to draw lots of red patterns on it. An hour-long lesson in “consistent style” is endured: the basics on use of defined terms are drummed in to me, the benefits of tables and schedules are shared and more peculiar preferences are revealed such as line-up your paperclips symmetrically, and methodology for the production of Bible spine labels…
