• James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    18 hours ago

    Thought leader can sound pompous. What’s a better phrase for people who are authorities in their field?

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      8 hours ago

      Big brain just has that lovely Gen Z punch, although it’s an adjective from what I gather, so

      Big Brain Thought Leader?

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      16 hours ago

      Note that broadly people that have an affinity to “thought leader” are not “authorities in their field”.

      The “thought leaders” are the people that take credit for making obvious wishlist statements and then saying it’s all due to them should it happen. Like if I as some internet rando said “we should really cut down on CO2”, and then somehow the world manages to reduce CO2 one year and I say “I was a thought leader and the reason why we reduced CO2”.