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 These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know.
-'''bay 108'''
+======bay 108======
-* The bay containing the metal shop.
+*The bay containing the metal shop.
-'''bay 110'''
+======bay 110======
-* The bay containing the wood shop.
+*The bay containing the wood shop.
-'''bar o’clock'''
+======bar o’clock======
-* Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek.
+*Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek.
-'''bikeshedding'''
+======bikeshedding======
 *Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
 *[https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
-'''DMZ'''
+======DMZ======
 *The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110).
 *(also called the no-fly zone)
-'''dogfooding'''
+======dogfooding======
 *The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs.
 *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
-'''do-ocracy'''
+======do-ocracy======
 *An organizational structure in which people are encouraged to set goals and accomplish tasks on their own, rather than leaders assigning tasks or roles to a particular person or group. Individuals are “free” to do tasks that they feel they should be done and minimal supervision or permission is required. The success or failure of a particular project is linked directly to the efforts of the people who do the things.
 *[https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Do-ocracy <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
-'''meet & geek'''
+======grok======
-* weekly event, traditionally held on Tuesday evenings between 1900 and 2100, where Protospace welcomes visitors for tours, and when many Protospace members (a.k.a. Protospacers) gather to socialize and bikeshed.
+*To understand something intuitively or by empathy.
-'''microwave hour'''
+======meet & geek======
-* The time it takes for someone to complete a project you can do in about an hour with a salvaged microwave oven transformer. We have never completed a Microwave hour.
+*Weekly event, traditionally held on Tuesday evenings between 1900 and 2100, where Protospace welcomes visitors for tours, and when many Protospace members (a.k.a. Protospacers) gather to socialize and bikeshed.
-'''toast'''
+======microwave hour======
+*The time it takes for someone to complete a project you can do in about an hour with a salvaged microwave oven transformer. We have never completed a Microwave hour.
+====== NMO ======
+* New member orientation.
+======rubber ducking======
+*Derived from the problem solving process of explaining your problem out-loud to an inanimate object, evolved to include arriving at a solution while articulating your problem in email/discussion post before hitting send.
+======toast======
 *A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard toast.
-'''yak shaving'''
+======yak shaving======
 *Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.
 *A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
 *[https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
+======XY problem======
+*Asking about your attempted ''solution'' rather than your actual ''problem.''
+*The person asking for help obscures the real issue, ''X'', because instead of asking directly about issue ''X'', they ask how to solve a secondary issue, ''Y'', which they believe will allow them to resolve issue ''X'' on their own.
+*[https://xyproblem.info/ <nowiki>[more]</nowiki>]
+======Trademark achievement======
+*"Reasonably Professional, no longer an embarrassment" '''™'''. is to be spoken whenever a doocratic action improves the space.