Open + Curious

And I mean dialog which is set up with certain agreed-upon concepts and boundaries, not literally framed for hanging on a wall. A while back—January 4th, 2021 to be specific—I made some notes about an idea tickling my brain. I had had a conversation with two people. We had decided to get together to talk…

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill. ~ Lord Mancroft Conversations are difficult to end well. I’ve spent considerable time thinking about how to end them, and talking to people about how to end them. (I am aware it’s awfully meta to have…

Communication between two people falls on a spectrum, and that spectrum has more than one dimension. What would happen if I continuously (as often as is possible in a conversation, but also by reflecting on each conversation and planning for the next), made conscious adjustments? Information could be flowing predominantly from person A to B, evenly, or…

I’ve long believed that two is the perfect number of people in a podcast. I’ve long believed that two is the perfect number of people in a podcast. Yes, there are exceptional instances of podcasts with the other numbers of people in them. But there’s magic in two. I often find things scattered about which make…