clique

" Playing language police is a lot easier than trying to really break up the cliques.

APMs are definitely a clique while they work for Google, but after they leave they are just a network of friends and contacts.

Its unfortunate because it builds a cult or clique of people who "get it" rather than helps to spread an idea to the masses.

This sort of forced camaraderie to fit into the clique isn't healthy at all. When I worked at Microsoft, we had quite a few talented female engineers on our team.

I know how it is to have coworkers stop inviting you to lunch after a while not realizing, that from the outside you've been excluded from a 'clique'.

This makes me question whether you were objectively picking out good and bad candidates, versus intuitively deciding whether someone will fit in the Google clique.

The clique of Apple tech pundit A-listers reliably delivers a predictable message to willing listeners/readers.

While the rhetoric might be all about diversity, the reality is that diversity rhetoric can be used as another mechanism for the real power clique to maintain its dominance.

I don't think an introvert would say that, and his later assertion thatBeing in any clique, even if it's just the nerds, is vastly preferable than eating alone., and the "obligated to pretend" language, seems to indicate that he's an extrovert.

OK, a little extra, and speaking very informally ...I've skimmed the first couple of pages, and in essence he seems to be setting up to show that a circuit that's sufficiently complex to solve the clique problem will have to have an exponential number of components.