Buzzwords that make boardrooms spin and PowerPoints sing.
A person who pays for continuous access to a service, publication, or resource—the revenue model's best friend and the marketer's holy grail. They're basically paying you to stay in their inbox.
Keeping something alive, functional, or supported long enough to matter—whether it's a business, an argument, or your motivation on a Monday morning. It's the art of maintenance disguised as progress.
To cut the cord, sever ties, or cleanly separate one thing from another—often used when companies finally acknowledge they're not compatible. It's the corporate equivalent of a breakup executed with HR efficiency.
Functional and repairable; the sad reality of products designed before planned obsolescence was invented. Something that can actually be fixed instead of landfilled.