[semiquaver]

How could this mixup possibly lead to the head of product announcing a Bruno Mars collaboration on stage???

I’m trying to imagine the series of events that could lead to this happening and I’m coming up woefully short.

[mattas]

This really sounds like an AI voice agent transcribed "Thirty Seconds to Mars" to "30 seconds for Bruno Mars" and then no one actually proof-read the thing.

[Mashimo]

Probably like the children game "Broken Telephone" or "Gossip" where after a long chain of word of mouth input does no longer match output. Sprinkle communication between different companies on top of that.

Thirty Seconds to Mars -> "The Mars band" -> ?? -> Bruno Mars

[cowsandmilk]

I routinely have to correct product managers repeatedly on key details of how their products work and how their customers operate so this doesn’t surprise me at all. It is totally a mistake I could see a product management director having been corrected on a dozen times but they keep making it.

[RobRivera]

I have to ask you for coaching advice here, as I may or may not be experiencing similar things. Does the correction impact your political capital? I am a firm believer in critique in private, but in key meetings where capabilities are the inputs to other discussion, it is difficult to bite my tongue

[konschubert]

Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

[alqpejfjfb]

It’s hard to spin it as a mixup when both acts were announced at the event.

[sophacles]

It's a simple tale, one as old as time - the religious scammers started believing their lies and drank the kool-aid.