There’s some great opportunities here to learn social skills for various kinds of high-performance environments (e.g. “business communication” vs Y Combinator office hours).
Often, just listening and paying attention to how they talk and think results in substantial improvement to social habits. I was looking for stuff like this around 2018, wish I had encountered a post like this; most people who are behind on this are surprisingly fast learners, but didn’t because actually going out and accumulating social status was too much of a deep dive. There’s no reason that being-pleasant-to-talk-with should be arcane knowledge (at least not here of all places).
There’s some great opportunities here to learn social skills for various kinds of high-performance environments (e.g. “business communication” vs Y Combinator office hours).
Often, just listening and paying attention to how they talk and think results in substantial improvement to social habits. I was looking for stuff like this around 2018, wish I had encountered a post like this; most people who are behind on this are surprisingly fast learners, but didn’t because actually going out and accumulating social status was too much of a deep dive. There’s no reason that being-pleasant-to-talk-with should be arcane knowledge (at least not here of all places).
Did you find anything interesting in 2018? Did you use it, and, if yes, how’d it go?