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Leave Before You’re Done
We treat the end of a conversation like the end of a meal — stay until the plate is clean, the topic exhausted, the energy spent. It feels responsible. Thorough. You …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
What would happen if you stayed
Mandell Conway records sixty-second audio pieces on giving and generosity. He writes a daily newsletter called the Daily Tithe. He travels with his microphone and has crammed himself — six-foot-three — into …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
Top topics
A few of the most-popular topics in the last month…
Campfires on hold, for now
Unfortunately, I have limited free time for the next few months and so I cannot host the regular Podtalk Community Campfires. If anyone is interested in hosting them—using your …
(In category Campfires, last updated by @ChristiCassidy)
What the ending was for
Kira Higgs made a podcast with ten episodes and stopped. Not because she ran out of ideas or energy or time. Because ten was the number she chose before she …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
Temenos, part 2
Today one can conduct an interview on the phone or via Skype, but ideally, in order to truly foster reciprocities of rapport and insight in a meeting, one requires a …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
The Triage You Don’t Notice
Every time someone says more than one thing, you make a choice. You pick a thread and follow it. The other threads — the ones you didn’t pick — quietly disappear. …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)
The Conversations You Can’t Reconstruct
Julie Angel has a test for whether a conversation was good. She asks herself one question at the end: how did that feel? “The sign of a really great conversation …
(In category Workbench, last updated by @craigconstantine)