to communicate well

musings, examples, and insights on good communication

sari and

One cold email can completely change your life. Here’s how to write a great one:

Sahil Bloom twitter.com

Jay Matthews

I SAY THIS GENUINELY AND WITH NO SUBTEXT

Joanna Goddard • The Best Thing to Text a Friend | Cup of Jo

ssari

love this phrase… funny how a simple choice of words can make you sound so much more real

Very few issues worthy of debate are black and white. That’s why we need to grapple with the gray areas of life, of which there are many. It’s always tempting to reduce issues to binary choices between right and wrong, good and evil, beneficial and destructive. But it’s ultimately self-defeating; binary thinking discourages complex reasoning while... See more

Mastering the art of arguing productively

Laura Pike Seeley

The brilliant Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”