one of the top ten most influential-of-me essays I've read--I can't find it now, it was something like 'On Being Polite'--discusses this at lengthhttps://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1416861867331313665 …
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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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good read. influential to me in a similar way was "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles, which i read last summer. think you would really like it
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