[junippor]

> The other example is actually our CEO – I think that there is a certain caricature required for public appearances & earnings calls, but he sometimes seems to speak genuinely at company all-hands meetings

Dear Engineer. If you're not pattern matching him, he's pattern matching you.

[w0mbat]

I'm not sure if that bit is sucking up to the CEO or damning him with faint praise.

[junippor]

The author seems to me surperficial enough as to believe he could get away with purposefully being ambigous and hoping that he can be flattering in the CEO's eyes while damning him with faint praise in the eyes of everyone else.