Sunday, October 18, 2026

Articulated trailer

Perhaps because my algorithm senses that I’m “busy still saying please” (New Radicals), it's been hammering me with ads for Articulation Training. AT trains you to, for example, never answer thank you with “you’re welcome” (because, they say, it shows you don't value the help you just gave), and give a meaningful answer to the - they say - vastly underrated job interview question: “tell me about yourself”.

Feeling vaguely understood by my algorithm, I was half-tempted to enrol for AT. But then I read somewhere that after you sign up it's virtually impossible to unsubscribe. So it would seem that true articulation training is saying no to scams (and, if possible, to AI). You’re welcome.

Besides, the Youtube ad opens with 'Never, and I mean never open a meeting with "how are you?"'. But surely by repeating the word "never" you underrate its ability to work the first time lol