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What Is Jargon?

A 90-second video on what constitutes confusing language.

Apr 09, 2015 1-min read

After my recent talk at Zappos, I filmed a few short videos on topics related to Message Not Received. In this one, I cover jargon. It never hurts to return the simple definition of the word communicate: to make common.

Yes, it really is that simple.

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