Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
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Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
Community-builder vs. truth seeker (liar vs jerk)
Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:
- How something appears to you may not be how it is.
- What is said or shown may not be all there is.
- What is true for me may not be true for you.
- The same words may mean different things to different people.
- What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is me
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“I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see.”
Cate Hall
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Angry people are always in search of others they can be angry at. Anger is unattractive. Anger is stupid. A person who is perpetually angry is always mishearing and misreading others. He misperceives what the other person said so he can have a pretext to go on the vicious attack. Worst of all, anger escalates. People are always talking about ventin
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What’s worse: Offending someone or lying to someone? Saying something stupid when it’s your turn, or not saying anything? Tell me which, and I’ll tell you your problem.