"Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement (Official 4K Video) on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2017–2026.
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Weird Al's whiteboard-animated music video parodying corporate buzzword culture, from the album Mandatory Fun. The lyrics are packed with business jargon.
Mostly posted as a joke in threads about corporate-speak, buzzwords and meeting culture.
8 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
I'm surprised the corporate culture parody song Mission Statement didn't come up. Every person who's ever been in a corporation should watch. ▶ this video
in “The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic” · View on HN
Good idea for a unit test for this: if you put the lyrics to "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mission Statement in, it should return the exact same text as output. ▶ this video
in “Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language” · View on HN
If you train an AI on enough Teams meetings, it will probably eventually generate the lyrics to "Mission Statement": ▶ this video
in “Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5” · View on HN
▶ this video (Weird Al Yankovic: Mission Statement) First verse: We must all efficiently Operationalize our strategies Invest in world-class technology And leverage our core competencies
in “Unsuck It (2010)” · View on HN
Now I want to try this. I'll start my brainstorming session by watching this: ▶ this video I can make my website here: [link] Now, what am I missing?
in “A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension” · View on HN
- Cognitive - Solutioning - Learning as a noun, as in "these are some good learnings" - Most things mentioned in Weird Al's brilliant lampoon of Judy Blue Eyes using corporate-speak: ▶ this video
in “Ask HN: What buzzwords or expressions do you dislike the most?” · View on HN
Oh my god, I did not know that Poe's law applied to corporate marketing now. I could not distinguish this from a parody song like Weird Al Yankovic's - "Mission Statement" [1] [1] ▶ this video
in “Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work” · View on HN
> Instead, I heard the Ford Motor Company described as a “mobility solutions provider” that engages in “multimodal journey planning.” People spoke about “whiteboarding” and “blue-skying” big ideas. I watched a video that described Ford’s efforts to build a “holistic, organic, interconnected system powered by a transportation operating system.” "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement: ▶ this video
in “Can Ford Turn Itself into a Tech Company?” · View on HN