{"id":16563,"date":"2009-09-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/29\/microspeak-net-net\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-net-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090929-00\/?p=16563","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Net net"},"content":{"rendered":"

In finance, the net<\/i> is the total after you have cancelled positive values against negative values. For example, if you took in $30 and paid out $20, then your net is $10.\n In Microspeak, this term has moved into project planning and has undergone redoubling, so it’s not just net<\/i>; it’s net net<\/i>. The doubling of the word was probably added to create a sense of impatience. Here’s an imaginary conversation that illustrates the term:<\/p>\n

Speaker 1<\/b>: We’re five days over on component X, but component Y is ahead of schedule, and we can have some of them h… <\/p>\n

Speaker 2<\/b>: (interrupting) What’s the net net<\/i>? <\/p>\n

Speaker 1<\/b>: Um, we’re two days behind. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The net net<\/i> is not a real estate transaction<\/a> but rather is a short summary of a complicated situation, what often goes by the term bottom line<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Here is an actual citation: <\/p>\n

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(At the top of a long email message)<\/p>\n

Net net, we’re delaying the release we had planned for tomorrow to try and get some critical fixes in. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another use of the term net net<\/i> is to highlight a conclusion from a lot of data. <\/p>\n

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(at the bottom of a large information-dense PowerPoint slide)<\/p>\n

Net Net: Eliminate XYZ from our target set. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Both senses of net net<\/i> highlight the principle of I know you’re impatient, so I’ll cut to the chase<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In finance, the net is the total after you have cancelled positive values against negative values. For example, if you took in $30 and paid out $20, then your net is $10. In Microspeak, this term has moved into project planning and has undergone redoubling, so it’s not just net; it’s net net. The doubling […]<\/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":[105,103],"class_list":["post-16563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

In finance, the net is the total after you have cancelled positive values against negative values. For example, if you took in $30 and paid out $20, then your net is $10. In Microspeak, this term has moved into project planning and has undergone redoubling, so it’s not just net; it’s net net. The doubling […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","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=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/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=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}