I’m here to say that this simply isn’t true. I use garbage language in my daily work in product development at Slate, and my job would be much more complicated—and take far, far longer—without it. To ...

I used to have a coffee mug at work that said: “I survived a meeting that should have been an email.” I would brandish it defiantly, daring anyone to look at it and say: “You don’t mean this meeting, ...