Brains are tricksy things, and you’ve got to do some due diligence to make sure that the things that are going on in your head are actually… well, […]
communication / relationships
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Everyone’s got needs. And sometimes that means you’re needy.
Sometimes, a “truth bomb” lives up to its name. While reading The Real Cause of Neediness over at Elephant Journal, there was one on the first page. Here […]
communication / feminism / relationships / sexism
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What Can We Do To Change the Passitivity Problem?
Monday I talked about how women are told to always agree with men. Yesterday I told you about a time I screwed up when communicating with a woman […]
communication / relationships / security
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Brain Weasels: Jargon That Does Double Duty
Brain weasels, linguistically, are their own entities. By naming them as something other than your sweetie, you’ve managed to address the problematic behavior without actually blaming the person.
communication / news / society / sociology
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The Writing’s On the Wall: How the *IDEA* of Fake News can hurt democracy
In our rush to decry the problems with “fake news” (and there are many problems with it), we solved one problem… but created another. And in his fumbling […]
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Leading with positivity in your text messages
As much as I like the Voice Rule, a lot of communication these days is via text. And because everyone’s got their own brain weasels, small details matter. […]