The meetings were not full of people who knew what was happening. They were full of people performing comprehension at different levels of confidence. I joined the company in March. By April I had stopped asking questions in meetings because every question I had seemed like something I should already know. By June I had stopped taking notes because taking notes looked like I was lost. By August I had perfected the expression — the one that reads as engaged, processing, slightly ahead of whoever was talking. I was not ahead of whoever was talking. I was performing comprehension. * * * Press enter or click to view image in full size Comic strip of a meeting showing people pretending to understand jargon for 24 months by the Author. The meetings had a vocabulary I did not fully speak. Not jargon exactly — the words were all English, individually comprehensible. It was the combinations.…