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Reminds me of "story of a car that wouldn’t start every time its owner bought vanilla ice cream". http://www.kepner-tregoe.com/blog/help-my-car-is-allergic-to...

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That story is so incredibly far-fetched, and further comprised by the not-so-subtle product plugs liberally sprinkled at every turn.

It sounds like it was written or told by an engineering person and then mangled into this BusinessExecutive™-speak by some marketing person.

And the story doesn't have that big a payoff to justify that either.

All the plugging did was make me slightly annoyed and averse towards the brand and that bloody catchphrase.

The story has apparently been recounted and rewritten many times since at least the "June 1978 issue of Traffic Safety magazine".

https://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp

That makes the biz-speak story posted on the KT website all the more distasteful.

Please, somebody, create a website that centralizes all these weird bugs! Could be a very good resource to "debug things", try and approach problems with different approaches.

It's a bit more serious, but good old RISKS DIGEST is worth a read for this kind of thing. https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

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