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by DavidAdams 1765 days ago
I was disappointed that this article didn't include "cargo cult," which is my personal favorite tech industry idiom.
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I used it in conversation with my spouse the other day and was legitimately surprised to realize that it wasn't in common usage. Or that I apparently had failed to use the term in their hearing in the past 20 years of us knowing each other.
"Cargo Cult Science" — Richard P. Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement address:

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm