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		icoder on Dec 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack Leaves Meta Someone on Reddit coined the term 'institutional inertia', which probably applies here too.

mattlondon on Dec 17, 2022 | [–]

That term predates Reddit.

https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=Instit...

vertis on Dec 17, 2022 | | [–]

Was going to say the same thing. I don't think it was coined on Reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like your use of trends though to prove it.

nickersonm on Dec 17, 2022 | | | [–]

It's even older; there's a decent blip in the 1830s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=institutional+...

woadwarrior01 on Dec 17, 2022 | [–]

That term is apt for Reddit's engineering teams as well.

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