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  "note": "Append-only. Never edit or remove existing entries once shipped (per docs/build.md sec 7). The 'jargon' field is matched case-insensitively against user input; the longest matching phrase wins. Each 'plain' array supplies multiple variants for the re-roll feature.",
  "entries": [
    {
      "jargon": "let's circle back on this",
      "plain": [
        "I am going to forget this exists.",
        "I will not think about this again.",
        "Let's both pretend this conversation never happened."
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let's circle back",
      "plain": [
        "I'm going to forget this exists.",
        "let's never speak of this again",
        "I will not bring this up again",
        "I hope you forget too"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "ping me",
      "plain": [
        "send me a message I'll ignore",
        "interrupt me later",
        "remind me, because I won't remember"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "loop me in",
      "plain": [
        "add me to a thread I will not read",
        "keep me CC'd so I can pretend to be informed",
        "include me so I can look busy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let's take this offline",
      "plain": [
        "I don't want to argue in front of these people",
        "this is going badly, let's stop",
        "I would like to disagree with you privately"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let's table this",
      "plain": [
        "I want this conversation to end",
        "I don't want to deal with this now",
        "we will never come back to this"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "park this",
      "plain": [
        "let it die quietly",
        "abandon this and pretend it was strategic",
        "ignore this until everyone forgets"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "touch base",
      "plain": [
        "talk briefly without resolving anything",
        "have a short meeting that produces nothing",
        "exchange status updates we already know"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "sync up",
      "plain": [
        "have another meeting",
        "talk about the thing we already talked about",
        "schedule something to feel productive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "set up a quick sync",
      "plain": [
        "book a meeting that will run long",
        "have a 30-minute conversation about a 2-minute decision",
        "add another recurring item to your calendar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let's regroup",
      "plain": [
        "I lost the thread",
        "I need to find out what we were doing",
        "I would like to restart this from scratch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "align with stakeholders",
      "plain": [
        "get approval from people who weren't paying attention",
        "ask seven people the same question",
        "build a slide deck that asks for permission"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "socialize this",
      "plain": [
        "tell people one at a time so nobody objects in a meeting",
        "lobby individually before the decision",
        "presell the idea so the meeting is a formality"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "get buy-in",
      "plain": [
        "convince people who weren't asked",
        "trade favors for nods",
        "make sure no one will say no later"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "executive sponsorship",
      "plain": [
        "someone important agreed to take the blame if this fails",
        "a VP nodded in a meeting once",
        "an SVP knows the project exists"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "thought partner",
      "plain": [
        "the person I want to do my thinking for me",
        "someone who agrees with me out loud",
        "an unpaid consultant who works here"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let me noodle on this",
      "plain": [
        "I have no idea",
        "I will not noodle on this",
        "I am stalling"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let me sit with this",
      "plain": [
        "I disagree but I'm not going to say so right now",
        "I need time to figure out a polite no",
        "this is a no"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "interesting idea",
      "plain": [
        "no",
        "absolutely not",
        "we will never do this"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "that's a great question",
      "plain": [
        "I do not know the answer",
        "I was hoping nobody would ask this",
        "I will redirect the conversation now"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "great point",
      "plain": [
        "I disagree but won't say so here",
        "I am acknowledging you so we can move on",
        "I heard you, that doesn't mean I agree"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "I hear you",
      "plain": [
        "I am not listening",
        "I am preparing my counterpoint",
        "I will pretend to consider this"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let's not boil the ocean",
      "plain": [
        "let's do almost nothing instead",
        "scope this down to where it has no impact",
        "do the easiest version that ships"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "low-hanging fruit",
      "plain": [
        "the work we should have already done",
        "the thing the intern could ship",
        "the metric we can move with one button"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "move the needle",
      "plain": [
        "change a number a little bit",
        "produce a screenshot for the all-hands",
        "be measurable enough to take credit for"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "swing the bat",
      "plain": [
        "try something with no plan",
        "do anything at all",
        "stop overthinking and ship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "drive impact",
      "plain": [
        "do something a manager can put on their review",
        "make a chart that goes up",
        "be promotable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "deep dive",
      "plain": [
        "open the document briefly",
        "skim a Notion page",
        "look at one chart and have opinions"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "do a deep dive",
      "plain": [
        "skim it for ten minutes",
        "ask someone else to summarize it",
        "look at the headline and pretend to know more"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "brainstorm session",
      "plain": [
        "meeting where nothing gets decided",
        "calendar block where loud people talk",
        "exercise that ends with sticky notes nobody reads"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "ideate",
      "plain": [
        "think, but make it billable",
        "have ideas, then write them on a whiteboard, then forget them",
        "do the loud version of thinking"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "in the weeds",
      "plain": [
        "actually doing the work",
        "knowing what's going on",
        "useful, in other words"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "rough order of magnitude",
      "plain": [
        "I made this number up",
        "somewhere between a guess and a wish",
        "ask me again in two weeks"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "back of the envelope",
      "plain": [
        "I made the math feel right",
        "trust me",
        "the spreadsheet that proves the conclusion I already had"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "directionally correct",
      "plain": [
        "wrong but optimistic",
        "the right answer if you squint",
        "true in spirit, false in fact"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we'll iterate on it",
      "plain": [
        "we will ship the broken version and hope",
        "fixes are someone else's problem",
        "we will never come back to this"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "minimum viable product",
      "plain": [
        "the version we'll regret",
        "the version we ship today and fix never",
        "good enough to demo, broken enough to require a relaunch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "iterate quickly",
      "plain": [
        "ship things half-built",
        "skip the planning",
        "break things and call it learning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "ship fast and learn",
      "plain": [
        "ship fast and explain it later",
        "deploy, then read the postmortem",
        "skip QA and call it agile"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we have a lot of runway",
      "plain": [
        "we have eight months",
        "we are running out of money",
        "the board is nervous"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "north star metric",
      "plain": [
        "the number we picked because it goes up",
        "the chart we put on the all-hands slide",
        "the thing we'll change when it stops cooperating"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "leverage our learnings",
      "plain": [
        "remember things we forgot",
        "rediscover the wheel",
        "make the same mistake more deliberately"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "operationalize this",
      "plain": [
        "make someone else do it forever",
        "turn this into a checklist nobody reads",
        "build a recurring meeting around it"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "leverage",
      "plain": [
        "use",
        "actually use",
        "use, but with extra syllables"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "unlock value",
      "plain": [
        "find revenue",
        "do something a finance person likes",
        "monetize the obvious"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "drive value",
      "plain": [
        "make money",
        "do work that gets noticed",
        "be promotable, basically"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "value-add",
      "plain": [
        "useful, but for the deck",
        "the part we say out loud to look smart",
        "the slide between the title and the conclusion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "I'm at capacity",
      "plain": [
        "no",
        "absolutely not",
        "find someone else"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "low bandwidth",
      "plain": [
        "no",
        "I will not do this",
        "ask the next person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "I'll need to check my bandwidth",
      "plain": [
        "I'm going to say no in three days",
        "the answer is no, the delivery is pending",
        "watch me ghost this thread"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "this is on my radar",
      "plain": [
        "I have forgotten about this until now",
        "I will continue to not work on it",
        "thank you for the reminder I am also ignoring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "top of mind",
      "plain": [
        "I just looked it up",
        "someone reminded me yesterday",
        "I learned this exists this morning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "in flight",
      "plain": [
        "kicked off in Q1 and untouched since",
        "open in a tab somewhere",
        "still in the project tracker"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let's get aligned",
      "plain": [
        "I want you to agree with me",
        "we are about to have the same argument again",
        "let's pretend to have the same goal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we're not aligned",
      "plain": [
        "you are wrong",
        "I am about to overrule you",
        "I disagree and this meeting will get longer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "stakeholder management",
      "plain": [
        "babysitting executives",
        "explaining the same thing to the same VPs",
        "absorbing complaints from people with no follow-through"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "manage up",
      "plain": [
        "do your manager's job for them",
        "make your boss look prepared",
        "write the email they should have written"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "constructive feedback",
      "plain": [
        "the part where you find out you're in trouble",
        "criticism dressed up as career development",
        "I'm about to tell you a hard thing politely"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "growth opportunity",
      "plain": [
        "you're not good enough yet",
        "something is broken and I'd like you to fix it",
        "this is a problem worded like a gift"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "area of development",
      "plain": [
        "thing you are bad at",
        "the line item that kept you off the promo list",
        "what your manager will mention in the next review"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "performance improvement plan",
      "plain": [
        "the legal version of we're firing you",
        "the formal start of your exit",
        "the document that exists for HR, not you"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we've decided to part ways",
      "plain": [
        "you're being fired",
        "they made the call without you",
        "your access ends at 5pm"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "pursue other opportunities",
      "plain": [
        "find a new job",
        "go anywhere else",
        "no longer my problem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "rightsize the organization",
      "plain": [
        "layoffs",
        "fire enough people to hit the quarterly number",
        "cut staff and rename it strategy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "optimize headcount",
      "plain": [
        "layoffs",
        "we are about to fire people",
        "this is a press release written like a memo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "transform the org",
      "plain": [
        "reorg, layoffs, or both",
        "the org chart you printed last month is wrong",
        "new boxes, same problems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "synergies",
      "plain": [
        "layoffs",
        "duplicate jobs we're about to eliminate",
        "the part of the merger HR doesn't put in the press release"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "doing more with less",
      "plain": [
        "doing the same with less",
        "doing less, but harder",
        "burning out and calling it leadership"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "all hands on deck",
      "plain": [
        "everyone work weekends",
        "the project is on fire",
        "leadership panicked"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "fire drill",
      "plain": [
        "the VP just had a thought",
        "drop your roadmap, this is urgent until tomorrow",
        "an actual fire, but invented by a stakeholder"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "hop on a quick call",
      "plain": [
        "a 45-minute call about something solvable by email",
        "I want to deliver bad news live",
        "this could be a message but I want to read your tone"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "as discussed",
      "plain": [
        "we never discussed this",
        "I am gaslighting you politely",
        "I am pretending you agreed to this"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "per my last email",
      "plain": [
        "I told you and you didn't read it",
        "I'm done being polite",
        "scroll up"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "gentle reminder",
      "plain": [
        "third reminder",
        "I am tired",
        "answer me"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "just bumping this",
      "plain": [
        "this is my fourth attempt",
        "I have given up on subtlety",
        "I'm done being polite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "any update on this",
      "plain": [
        "you missed the deadline",
        "did you forget about me",
        "I am about to escalate this"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "wanted to follow up",
      "plain": [
        "you ignored me",
        "this is the polite version of bumping the thread",
        "we both know I'm waiting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "no worries at all",
      "plain": [
        "there are several worries",
        "I am annoyed",
        "I am being professional about my annoyance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "happy to help",
      "plain": [
        "I am not happy",
        "I will do this and resent it",
        "I am putting on the smile voice"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "let me know if you have any questions",
      "plain": [
        "please don't have any questions",
        "I'm done with this thread",
        "do not reply to this email"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "thanks in advance",
      "plain": [
        "I am preemptively thanking you to lock you in",
        "you cannot say no without seeming rude",
        "I have closed the negotiation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "appreciate the partnership",
      "plain": [
        "I appreciate the work I made you do",
        "I am thanking you for doing my job",
        "I owe you and we both know it"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "thank you for your patience",
      "plain": [
        "we were slow and we know it",
        "thank you for not screaming yet",
        "we will be slow again"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "going forward",
      "plain": [
        "from this point on, but really starting in two months",
        "in theory",
        "we will revert in three weeks"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "rockstar",
      "plain": [
        "underpaid employee",
        "someone we will lose in six months",
        "the person who does three jobs"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "ninja",
      "plain": [
        "person with one specific skill",
        "engineer we'll burn out by Q3",
        "someone the recruiter has never met"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "thought leader",
      "plain": [
        "person with a LinkedIn",
        "person who posts a lot",
        "someone with strong opinions and a podcast"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "evangelist",
      "plain": [
        "marketer in a hoodie",
        "salesperson with a developer title",
        "person who tweets about the product on weekends"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "high performer",
      "plain": [
        "person who said yes too many times",
        "employee about to burn out",
        "next quarter's attrition risk"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "self-starter",
      "plain": [
        "we will not train you",
        "figure it out alone",
        "you will not have a manager who answers Slack"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we work hard and play hard",
      "plain": [
        "we work hard",
        "the playing part is optional and unpaid",
        "we expect weekends and call it culture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we're a family here",
      "plain": [
        "we will guilt-trip you out of normal job behavior",
        "boundaries are bad here",
        "expect to be cried at"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "wear many hats",
      "plain": [
        "do three jobs for one salary",
        "we did not hire enough people",
        "you will burn out, fondly remembered"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "fast-paced environment",
      "plain": [
        "chaotic environment",
        "the planning happens after the deadline",
        "leadership changes its mind weekly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "competitive salary",
      "plain": [
        "average salary",
        "below market salary",
        "the salary we won't disclose until you ask twice"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "unlimited PTO",
      "plain": [
        "PTO you'll never take",
        "vacation policy with a cultural cap of one week",
        "a benefit designed to save the company money"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "flexible hours",
      "plain": [
        "you'll work nights too",
        "the workday has no boundary",
        "Slack at 10pm is fine, by which we mean expected"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "exciting opportunity",
      "plain": [
        "underpaid opportunity",
        "the role nobody else accepted",
        "a job they cannot fill on the open market"
      ]
    },
    {
      "jargon": "we'll keep you posted",
      "plain": [
        "you will hear nothing",
        "we are about to ghost you",
        "do not expect an update"
      ]
    }
  ]
}