Great news everyone! I have risen from my sunken crypt and dropped a new post:
@ludicity
"All of these may have previously signalled novel thought, and now anyone that's really savvy does their best to not use the phrases because they know how tacky it makes them look, even if they actually use them in meaningful ways."
I found this a quite humorous paragraph shortly after you had spouted things like "Not Repeat Yourself" and "Test First Development". Maybe it somehow doesn't apply to all those XP phrases? ;-)
@ludicity I thought we had already agreed to disagree, which is why I phrased it as a humorous observation with a winky smiley. I just find it fun to occasionally tweak the theologian's nose. :-)
I didn't even start in on Zen and the Art of 😴
@lwriemen We'll probably just have to agree to disagree on this one, though I'll end up writing a post on XP specifically. A large reason we even started investigating it is that I kept meeting supremely talented people who would reveal a few hours in that they loved XP.