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Define: "Whiteboarding"
What HR thinks it means:
Brainstorming ideas and mapping out concepts visually on a whiteboard.
What it actually means:
"Drawing abstract shapes and arrows to pretend we have a solid technical architecture."
Use it in a meeting:
"The architect spent an hour whiteboarding a complex microservices mesh that we all know will just end up being a single massive SQL query."
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