An essential skill that every engineer should perfect.
Picture yourself as a (software) engineer. You now face three challenges:
Complete your actual responsibilities.
Keep your boss off your back so you can focus on your work.
Stop your boss from circulating confidential company information by providing him only what resembles the “Executive Summary” of your work, which is, in reality, just a schematic of an old TV remote, with your company’s terminology substituting the part numbers.
A few of the remaining Twitter engineers kindly demonstrated this concept:
A screenshot of an idiotgram, detailing the Twitter architecture for the new boss and the broader audience.