{"id":16773,"date":"2009-09-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/10\/management-speak-focus\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T10:00:00","slug":"management-speak-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090910-00\/?p=16773","title":{"rendered":"Management-speak: Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Management likes to use the word <i>focus<\/i>. They like it so much, that anything important is called a <i>focus<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> That&#8217;s an interesting scenario, one which we hope to address, but it&#8217;s not our main focus. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> We&#8217;re focusing on three features for this release. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> But how can you focus on more than one thing? The first citation implies that there&#8217;s more than one focus (a main focus, and maybe some secondary foci); the second citation makes explicit the mutiplicity of foci.\n But a lens doesn&#8217;t focus on more than one thing. There is one focus, the point at which parallel rays from infinity converge.<\/p>\n<p> Then again, if a lens is defective, it can have more than one focal point. And there&#8217;s a term for that phenomenon: Aberration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management likes to use the word focus. They like it so much, that anything important is called a focus. That&#8217;s an interesting scenario, one which we hope to address, but it&#8217;s not our main focus. We&#8217;re focusing on three features for this release. But how can you focus on more than one thing? The first [&hellip;]<\/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":[105,26],"class_list":["post-16773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Management likes to use the word focus. They like it so much, that anything important is called a focus. That&#8217;s an interesting scenario, one which we hope to address, but it&#8217;s not our main focus. We&#8217;re focusing on three features for this release. But how can you focus on more than one thing? The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773","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=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/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=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}