[Music] I'm well aware of the irony of me giving a talk on hedging today because despite spending nearly all day every day researching and reading about gendered and intentional language, I still consistently use phrases like I think, maybe, and sort of in nearly every conversation I have. And I've always thought that was just me, my personality, my communication style, until one winter day in 2019 when I met up with two colleagues, Lynn and Emily, for a brew to talk about software design decisions. Because ...