the essayist explains a party game he and another aggressively polite person would play you go to a party and try to go as long as you can without talking about yourself every time you talk about you, you get a point winner at the end of the night has the fewest points
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"what do you do" is sort of a party turd in the punch bowl because it's a stale cliched question and because mostly talking about work at a party is tiresome. there are so many more interesting things one can elicit from people
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YES this is the essay!


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Is it the Paul Ford one?https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c …
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If you wrote a twitter thread about every-day etiquette I would read it
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Or indeed a book.
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everyday, people on here debate basic manners
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okay, that one was a fantastic read, so i gotta ask... if you're willing to share, off the top of your head what are some of the others in the top ten?
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this is a really good question. in terms of influence on my life choices this was a biggie as I read it while working in a lab as a late-stage undergraduate https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science …
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