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good conversations have emergent properties - by Nix 🕊

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Conversations have emergent properties: products co-created by two people. Distinctive behaviors, shared taxonomies, even entire secret worlds. I find great joy in discovering something fundamental about another person through dialogue. How do you model the world in your head? How do you navigate the precipice or terrain between ideas? How do you skate across the surface of this world? When I first met you I knew we’d be close. Or could be. Our first conversations had an inevitable gravity to them. In many ways I think J taught me what conversations could be. Or it was something we taught each other. J and I met properly in the grass square outside our first year shared dorm in college. Two young girls with big suitcases, fearful and excitable about change. We awkwardly exchanged numbers clutching our freshman flyers and moving carts. At some point on that first day, something clicked. We proceeded to talk nonstop for the next 4 years. A shared artifact: we wrote a newsletter together

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