The Kitchen Analogy
Building sticky metaphors
This is the moment you've been building toward. Demoing a product to a client who cares about outcomes, not how it works under the hood — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
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The Board Presentation
→The board needs to understand your technical strategy. They don't speak your language. Navigate the presentation where clarity beats complexity.
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Explaining Tech to Non-Tech
→The board presentation, the client demo, the family dinner explanation, and the pitch that needs to land without jargon. Master the art of translating complex technical concepts into clear, compelling language.
What you'll learn from The Kitchen Analogy
This scenario focuses on Building sticky metaphors — a critical skill inside the broader technology domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Board Presentation, a full interactive story inside the Explaining Tech to Non-Tech quest.
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The board stares at your slide — a diagram that makes perfect sense to engineers and zero sense to anyone holding a fiduciary responsibility. You have twenty minutes to make the incomprehensible strategic.
What started with the board presentation just got more complicated. Now you need to eliminate jargon instinctively — translating complexity into clarity in real time — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to eliminate jargon instinctively — translating complexity into clarity in real time not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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