Alphabet Soup! (Acronyms in tech)

The PEBKAC if you don't RTFM, right? Acronyms can be time-saving sometimes, same as any shorthand or slang that has ever existed in any language ever. Sometimes, it can also be a bit of fun! But sometimes, it's really exclusionary--we need to be careful about where we're using it and why. EXTRA CREDIT: - Cisco exams are just awful about putting everything into acronyms. They take some of the worst tendencies in tech and crank them right up to 12. - Cisco and Google are also two of the most egregious companies I know in the networking space for coming up with something proprietary, slapping an acronym on it, and then pretending like it's a new standard that everybody should obviously implement without any discussion. If you don't know what it is, it's easier to pass it off as a "standard" that you just didn't know about before now! - Practice your storytelling! An analogy is just another way of using a short "story" to explain whatever's happening in more approachable language. :)