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You can talk about innovation without resorting to cliches

A cliché is fresh for a day.

Ken Gordon
Wed, 11 Jul 2018

Clichés aren’t born as clichés. They come into the world as poetry, a new way of talking and thinking and seeing. The first person to say “kick the bucket” to mean “die” was onto something big.

Then a few people adopt the term. For a brief while, using it becomes an exercise in linguistic hipness.

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Ken Gordon
Wed, 11 Jul 2018
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