{"id":110958,"date":"2025-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=110958"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:42:27","slug":"20250311-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20250311-00\/?p=110958","title":{"rendered":"What an insightful observation, you get to wear &#8220;the hat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I have noted that teams have <a title=\"Using a physical object as a reminder\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051208-10\/?p=33043\"> used physical objects as a reminder<\/a> or used them <a title=\"When a token changes its meaning mid-stream\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051206-10\/?p=33083\"> as an honor, or as a form of shame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I recently learned that this tradition exists in Microsoft outside the software development world. At least in one part of the Finance department, they had a hat that had the word &#8220;Hat&#8221; printed on it. If you said something totally obvious in a meeting, you had to wear &#8220;the hat&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe not so insightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-110958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Maybe not so insightful.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}