Trevor McKendrick - How to have better conversations

Let’s make it a great week.

Trevor

Why I read writers’ diaries (tweet)

Pictures of famous writers’ diaries commenting on how little they were writing.

21-year-old student pilot lands her plane without nose wheel (video)

Great to see the piloting(?) community rally together to help her out.

Why relationships shouldn’t be “50/50” (tweet video clip)

I’m usually not much of a Brene Brown fan (tho in my defense I didn’t know it was her while I was watching this video).

But this was good… explicit over communication w/ significant others is underrated

El Paquete Semanal (wikipedia page)

Cuba has a 1 terabyte USB thumb drive of digital content that gets updated every week and distributed to folks throughout the country.

It’s basically how they get an updated “internet”.

Things you can say to people in ten seconds that sometimes produce insanely outsized effects (twitter thread)

Some of my favorites:

”2) Is there something you could do about that problem in the next five minutes?”

“7) Feeling stuck sucks. Want to brainstorm together?”

“9. What's the twenty minute version of this overwhelming-feeling thing?”

“11. Is it worth just asking / cold emailing and seeing?”

Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points (quote)

A new favorite quote from Kevin Kelly’s new book.

How to have better conversations (article)

Please, please, please everyone read this. The quality of your conversations will decrease dramatically.

I jumped down to the section “Extending the Invitation”

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