1/6 For as long as I can remember I have craved and sought interesting conversation. It’s rare to find it. Nearly all conversation is ‘social engineering’. If you want a content based conversation that does not quickly dilute to social engineering, you must be ruthless.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/988636929926164481 …
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4/6 All conversations define their own boundaries, normally without awareness. The underlying purpose of social-engineering conversation is tribal affiliation. Very quickly social-engineering conversations establish tribal boundaries, we start tacitly defining ‘other’.
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5/6 The underlying purpose of content-based conversation is change. We’re interested in moving from a to b, though we may not know how that’s going to happen or what b looks like. So to start we establish even loosely, what is a, and figure out possible directions from there.
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