A coworker's simple password trick finally clicked for me

So you switched your bank login to something a casual observer could guess if they know you have a dog? I get that it beats reusing the same password everywhere, but "looks like gibberish" is doing a lot of work here since anyone who knows your life could probably piece together a few phrases. Unless you're picking random sentences totally unrelated to you, it's not really that different from a weak password with extra steps.