November 2011
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Handy list of empathy blockers, or, never say this...
This morning I heard a hilarious story about Friend A trying to cheer up Friend B by calculating the number of hours Friend B could rightfully claim to be upset. It reminded me that not everybody knows about empathy blockers, the emotional equivalent of logical fallacies. Here’s a handy list from Robin Grille’s Heart to Heart Parenting. While the full article is geared towards...
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“I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it’s...”
– JWZ’s response to Arrington’s “Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining”, in Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz
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“In any case, Maus argues, these chord patterns that to us might feel redolent of...”
– John Maus: ‘If my music sounds 80s, you’re hearing its medieval backbone’ | Music | The Guardian
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