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Polymath | Talha Ashraf | Substack

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I logged into LinkedIn to post about this Substack and while I was there I texted this specific person telling them they should write more. And because their response was to say that they didn't know if they're that good, I tried countering imposter syndrome. This was a second or third interaction with the person but instead doing a normal counter I launched into a long tirade and shared an entire text from a blog post in the chat skipping surface level conversation for the the kind of stuff that you say to people you have already known for a while. This is on average not a great idea. But I personally speedrun interactions and skip small talk. The benefit of this is that I get to be unapologetically myself and after an interaction of this type, if the person finds it digestible they talk more and if they don't, they talk less. Which saves me from the drudgery of dozens of conversations about nothing before finding out that we don't like talking to each other. Another benefit of this i

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