[kilpikaarna]

> Tony was an early fan of the magic/comedy team Penn and Teller. A friend and colleague attended a show and hung out afterward to ask the duo to sign a photo for his friend Tony. “He was on the team that did the red and green squiggles in Word.”

That’s some heavy duty corpo-brain to be introducing your friend with ”He was on the team that did X”.

[InsideOutSanta]

If you know somebody from work, and that person built something most people on earth have seen and can identify, that seems a fine way of introducing that person.

[nikanj]

Would it also be corpo brain to say ”He was the guy that landed on the moon”? That was Neil’s job, after all.

[Dibby053]

I think everybody likes to be part of something big. I would definitely be proud of having worked on something so well-known.

This feature is from a different time, though. The people working at big tech these days clearly don't care as much about the output of the stuff they work on.

[praash]

"Heavy-duty" calls for exaggerated impact and prestige.

"Tony pioneered the famous red-and-green squiggles of Microsoft Word, empowering millions of users with a spell-checking revolution."