Thread - content based conversation vs/+ social-engineering PS: More and more I’m recognising the importance of conversational skill and my own blind-spots in this area. This thread is food for thought.https://twitter.com/_awbery_/status/988694011765456896 …
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Also, ambiguity at the interface is huge & largely ignored, even 1:1, face-to-face in a relatively low-noise space, ie: auditory & social noise (mutual-intention). Yet its at the interface where conversation grows, as opposed to people talking to themselves in the same place.
So, as you say even if one has the intention for content-based conversation - perhaps making that explicit (as I sometimes do in a mentor-mentee situation) - the pattern where people interpret things in terms of social-engineering/signalling is deeply ingrained.
