The Field Guide

The Should Have Been An Email Field Guide

A growing index of corporate vocabulary, bingo cards, fake meeting presets, and excuse libraries. All free. All useful in roughly the same way a fire extinguisher is useful.

A field guide to the meeting you're already in. Glossary, bingo, fake meetings, excuses. 100 pages, generated.
Corporate Vocabulary Glossary (40)
Circle Back→Take This Offline→Ping Me→Sync Up→Touch Base→Loop In→Low-Hanging Fruit→Move the Needle→Synergy→Drill Down→Deep Dive→Boil the Ocean→Open the Kimono→Run It Up the Flagpole→Per My Last Email→As Discussed→Friendly Reminder→Gentle Nudge→Circle the Wagons→Double-Click→Level-Set→Table Stakes→North Star→Blue-Sky Thinking→Bandwidth→Cycles→Throw Spaghetti at the Wall→30,000-Foot View→In the Weeds→Keep Me in the Loop→Drink from the Firehose→Eat Your Own Dog Food→Table This→Parking Lot→Action Item→Cadence→Alignment→Stakeholder→Key Takeaway→Close the Loop→
Meeting Bingo Cards (25)
Standup Bingo→All-Hands Bingo→Sprint Planning Bingo→Retro Bingo→1:1 Bingo→Performance Review Bingo→Sales Kickoff Bingo→Board Meeting Bingo→Vendor Pitch Bingo→Town Hall Bingo→Customer Call Bingo→QBR Bingo→Onboarding Bingo→Offsite Bingo→Layoff Announcement Bingo→Reorg Bingo→Zoom Meeting Bingo→Microsoft Teams Meeting Bingo→Google Meet Bingo→Interview Bingo→Postmortem Bingo→Budget Review Bingo→Roadmap Review Bingo→Exec Update Bingo→Skip-Level Bingo→
Fake Meeting Presets (20)
Fake Zoom Standup→Fake Zoom All-Hands→Fake Zoom 1:1→Fake Zoom Interview→Fake Zoom Retro→Fake Microsoft Teams Standup→Fake Microsoft Teams All-Hands→Fake Microsoft Teams 1:1→Fake Microsoft Teams Interview→Fake Microsoft Teams Retro→Fake Google Meet Standup→Fake Google Meet All-Hands→Fake Google Meet 1:1→Fake Google Meet Interview→Fake Google Meet Retro→Fake Sick-Day Meeting→Fake WFH Meeting→Fake Coffee Shop Meeting→Fake Airport Meeting→Fake "I'm Driving" Meeting→
Excuse Libraries (15)
Excuses to Skip a Standup→Excuses to Skip an All-Hands→Excuses to Skip a 1:1→Excuses to Leave a Meeting Early→Excuses to Decline a Meeting Invite→Excuses to Keep Your Camera Off→Excuses for When You Were on Mute→Excuses for Avoiding Eye Contact on Video→Excuses to End a Meeting Fast→Excuses to Skip a Friday Meeting→Excuses to Skip a Monday Morning Meeting→Excuses for Being Late to a Meeting→Excuses for Not Having Prepped→Excuses to Extend a Deadline→Excuses to Decline a Recurring Meeting→