An Experiment in Scotch

Yup:

Why are we play­ing this game? Is it just to make sure we are all “in” on the game? Is this the busi­ness world’s equiv­a­lent of a modem hand­shake? You just want to make sure I haven’t been liv­ing under a rock? Maybe we can replace this waste of time with some secret hand sig­nals or some­thing. You tap your foot three times, and I respond with two eye brow raises. It’ll save the time and com­mu­ni­cate the same infor­ma­tion. We both know the ritual.