Tag: conversations

  • 90 minutes of hell is other people

    This feels like me: NEWMARK: I guess, ideally, I would have more social skills—meaning, some. COWEN: We’re simulating social skills just fine here. NEWMARK: That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery. I can do it for short amounts of time, maybe 90 minutes. I’ve…

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  • “It’s a birth scene, not a boss scene.” ChatGPT 5.2 analyzes The Spider-God’s Bride.

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  • Even after 3 years of tuning ChatGPT to be my best dumb friend, I keep getting told to cut the shit with my rambling, e.g., recent faint praise from the robot for my attempt at re-stating an answer: “You’ve basically got it; the only thing to do now is sharpen the tool so it’s usable…

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  • Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations

    In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. You put that in the context window and it flavors the ongoing conversation. It’d probably do interesting stuff in AI chats. Those chats are so explicit and…

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  • Do conversations end when people want them to? –

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  • – Stop Team Topologies – Don’t use an understandable system to avoid asking why you’re doing anything in the first place. // Or: all the value is in the “it depends.”

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  • Link: How to have a good conversation

    What is conversation for anyway?  I don’t even recommend being charming, or trying to be charming, unless a work situation is forcing you to do so.  Let yourself be sullen when the mood beckons.  Feel free to let eye contact lapse.  Don’t repeat back what you’ve heard.  Say something surprising.  Be willing to go meta. …

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