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good conversations have emergent properties

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or: people have very vivid interiorities

Black Cradle of Bright Life, Vangel Naumovski 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…

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