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One skill is storytelling, which I cover more on ribbonfarm.com.* With a lot of practice, this gives you big-picture control over conversations.
The Gervais Principle
Venkatesh Rao
But then I realized that, though my own behavioral algorithms are much more complicated than that, there could well be a being so intelligent that, to it, I look as simple-minded as the lizard looks to me. The more I thought about it, the more that lizard and I seemed to have in common. We were both thrown into a world we didn’t choose, under the guidance of behavioral algorithms we didn’t choose, and were trying to make the best of the situation. I felt a kind of kinship with the lizard that I’d never felt with a lizard.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
To build strong children reinforce their sense of belonging to a family by articulating exactly what is distinctive about your family. They should be able to say with pride “Our family does X.”
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
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