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George Saunders • “Failures of Kindness”
But smoothness, it turns out, is a dubious virtue, since it’s often the unsmoothed textures of life that make it livable, helping nurture the relationships that are crucial for mental and physical health, and for the resilience of our communities. Your loyalty to your local taxi firm is one of those delicate social threads that, multiplied
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
How To Talk To Anyone
body:
THE FLOODING SMILE
STICKY EYES
THE DOOR STRETCH: head high, shoulders back, torso out of hips, feet weightless, confident smile (different)
RUBBERNECK ENTRANCE, be the CHOOSER not the CHOOSSEE, WRIST FLASH, open up your body
wear a WHATZIT, ask WHOOZAT & WHATZIT, EAVESDROP IN
LIMIT THE FIDGITING
talking:
TALK TO BABIES:
I will pursue the beautiful girl, avoid that homeless man, and ignore the person standing next to me in the checkout line.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
“To defeat the human need for face-to-face contact, our technological marvels would need to defeat millions of years of human evolution that has made us into machines for learning from the people next to us,” Glaeser writes.”