cio taxonomy

continuing this week's theme of personality taxonomies, here's a blog post cleaning up another blog post categorizing CIO stereotypes.

A CIO (I had to look this up, although I assume most of you didn't) is a "Chief Information Officer", something which became an executive position while I was scratching my ass and writing letters to my congressman, apparently.

The taxonomer only provides four stereotypes:

1. The Bluffer
2. The Tweetie Nerd
3. unnamed, but called "a variant on greenmail"
4. The Absent Genius

Okay, dude, you need to learn how to taxonomize. If you're going to categorize people, you have to give each category its own name. Then you have to explain the name. I'm sure other CIOs know what "tweetie" means in this context, but taxonomers are throwing themselves upon their rubrics, so to speak, for the good of insiders and laypersons alike. Ya know?

Okay? and a real taxonomy has subcategories and sub-subcategories, and can be mapped out, or more accurately, diagrammed, kinda like this:

Anything with less than three hierarchical strata is mere categorization. Yes, that's a haughty tone in my voice. Not every set of categories is a taxonomy! There's more at stake here than mere stereotypes!

And cross-referencing? Hello? Any single taxon must be able to find more than one parent. Okay? Dude.

Plus, what is "greenmail"? Is it like blackmail, but with plants?