Inspired by this twitter thread from Matt Webb, I have been collecting words and phrases that are interesting to me since March of 2021.

Here’s my collection from 2022:

• prefigurative intervention
• cozy futurism
• Corsi-Rosenthal Box
• cringe
• softbois
• The klept
• rest and digest
• Substack
• Discord
• chocolate-covered broccoli
• missing stair
• 5S
• whisper network
• goblincore
• origin story
• role incredulity
• sus
• ACAB
• chaordic systems
• vagus nerve hacks
• The Yellow Belt
• wordcels
• shape rotators
• Truck Nuts
• sociocracy
• Freedom Convoy
• RamRanchResistance
• kayfabe
• vibe shift
• PASC (post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2)
• data voids
• Bongo Flava
• SWANA (South West Asian/ North African)
• SLOAP (Space Left Over After Planning)
• Jevons’s Paradox
• McNamara fallacy
• buttering the cat
• forking a project
• the thalweg doctrine
• cancel culture
• time poverty
• OODA loop
• alpha-gal
• horseshoe theory
• trauma dumping
• geocoin
• original antigenic sin
• unalive
• algospeak
• adversarial makeup
• Kaya Identity
• triadic closure
• DYOR (Do Your Own Research)
• From Pet to Threat
• strategic discrimination
• elite overproduction
• The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
• min maxing
• The Waffle House Index
• mole hunt
• competitive mooting
• book dummies
• shadow library
• brand safety
• enthusiastic consent
• behavioral contagion
• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
• bike-shedding
• fugue state
• almond mom
• The Crisis Crisis
• liminal week
• revenge travel
• fuckboy
• Pomodoro Technique
• rewilding
• glass cliff
• reply guys
• clout chasers
• cosmic latte
• clickwrap
• longtermism
• effective altruism
• quiet quitting

You can find My Words of 2021 on Tumblr.