Random info - a factoid originally meant "a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true", when it was coined a few decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

Of course, like "Literally" & "Decimated", the accepting meaning has drifted since then...

How has decimated changed in meaning?

Decimated comes from the Roman military punishment "Decimation" where for some military unit being punished, 10% of their ranks were to executed by their colleagues.

The most literal meaning of decimated is "to reduce by 10%" but the common meaning is from the complete and total destruction of morale and resistance that results from being forced to kill your colleagues.

If you told the average American "We decimated the Iraqi army" they'd think America wiped them out entirely. Or at least 50%.

Which is why the modern 1st definition is:

> "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of."

for 'decimated' are you talking about the change from 1 in 10, or something more recent I missed ?

"Literally" is literally my biggest pet peeve. Changing from 2 spaces to 1 at the end of sentences is another.

1 space after a period has always been correct unless you’re writing in a monospaced font (or with a typewriter).

exactly - 2 spaces was correct for anyone that learned to type before say y2k. Back when typing actually involved a typewriter :-)

Weird that wiki doesn’t mention that it’s just the -oid suffix for “like” the same way we can call a non-square box a cuboid. The rest seems suspect eg anyone could’ve coined it.

Well, almost anyone. If the Progenitors had been startup devs we'd probably be approximately spherical meeple in a webgl tarski's world with "facty" and "fucky" truth values.

Good advice. This will be tricky as there isn't a massively rigid structure in place as it is. It's like that that the COO will be asking me to do things at times, so governance groundrules will be very useful. Reminds me of http://holacracy.org/

Thank you

Well put, thank you!

IMO I'd start the role as Operations Manager or Director of Operations and grow it from there with the company. Lets you get someone for cheaper who can hopefully grow into the role as the company grows. It doesn't sound like you need a full-fledged COO yet anyway.

We have accountants who handle that side of things, it's the more mundane collection of receipts, payment of invoices etc. that are a drain on my time.

Thanks for clearing up the CEO/COO point though, I think I was getting a bit confused.

Thanks!

I think more of an administrator role is looking like the best option. Thank you!