{"id":97916,"date":"2018-01-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=97916"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:03:23","slug":"20180129-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180129-01\/?p=97916","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak sighting: over-index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I heard the Microspeak term <i>over-index<\/i> used in the wild. It&#8217;s like birdwatching, but for words. <\/p>\n<p>In <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=581128170\">a brief interview with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman<\/a>, they talked about the significance of having Amazon headquartered in your city. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>And Amazon can take some of the wealth of Seattle or Silicon Valley and bring it to the center of the country, and that can be really good. But I think people are <u>overindexed<\/u> on Amazon. There&#8217;s going to be Apple, and then there&#8217;s going to be Dropbox, and there&#8217;s going to be Intel.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The term here is being used in the Microspeak way: Given too much prominence in a discussion. He&#8217;s saying that people are focusing too much on Amazon and missing the other companies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like birdwatching, but for words.<\/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-97916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s like birdwatching, but for words.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97916","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=97916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97916\/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=97916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}