【Dad Jokes】Dad jokes save the world

In a nutshell

1. Everyone makes too much fun of dad jokes! Dad jokes are a sophisticated play on rhetoric and a shortcut to becoming an idea man!
2. Dad jokes usually fall flat, but they're the easiest jokes for the other person to make fun of! In other words, they're a conversation lubricant.
3. It's the perfect way to shatter the image of engineers as being stuffy!

Dad jokes are a shortcut to becoming an idea man

I love dad jokes. Honestly, I can come up with them endlessly. But if I told them all, the conversation wouldn't go anywhere, so I'm not telling them.

But everyone makes too much fun of dad jokes. They look at me as if I were a piece of trash.

Coming up with dad jokes is actually good practice for brainstorming.

A dad joke is an attempt to enjoy the rhythm of words by rhyming unrelated things. It's a skillful game.

To come up with a dad joke, you need to be able to come up with a good combination of unrelated words that have the same reading. This is good practice for brainstorming.

Even the timeless classic on ideas, "A Technique for Producing Ideas," says that ideas are combinations.

An idea is a new combination of existing elements.

Everyone is brainstorming these days, so let's practice dad jokes first 😎

Anyone can make fun of a bad joke!

This requires you to throw away your pride, but the flow of jokes and retorts in a conversation is very important. I think everyone has one or two go-to lines.

However, both joking and retorting require skill. Neither can be done without skill. However...

If a joke falls flat, the retorter doesn't need vocabulary or acting skills.

• "That was a terrible joke."
• "That was lame."
• "Give me back my time!"

You can probably think of a million of them. And the person who told the dad joke can just pretend to be a monkey 🙊 and make a "sorry" face, or just grin and bear it. I recommend it.

Shatter the image of engineers as boring!

Engineers are generally thought of as gloomy nerds who only think about programming and don't want to talk to people. Well, I don't think that's the case these days...

At least, there's a stereotype that they're "boring to talk to." Turn the tables and tell a dad joke!

Then the gap will be so great that people will think you're interesting. At meetings and drinking parties, people will feel like something is missing if you're not there.

But just one word of caution. Your job is not to go to meetings and drinking parties, but to write code. So please, do it in moderation.

Aside (Recommended Book)

A recommended design book. It's packed with design tips that you can use forever. I use it often myself.