Cadence

Technical term of interest to cyclists, rowers and bullshit artists. A fancy way of saying speed, or rate of stroke. Middle managers will like this buzzword for its sporting allusion, and as it seems to be an elegant way of making subject matter experts go faster.

It’s an elegant way of making SMEs resent you. Not that they’ll need an excuse.

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