the best conversations help you hear yourself

on conversation as prompt, portal, and co-creation

Before Sunrise (1995) For a long time, I thought conversation was mostly a way of reporting on life, not participating in it. I understood that it could be pleasant and funny, even often useful, but I did not yet understand that it could be generative. So much of it seemed to be people passing static facts back and forth, reporting the surface of their lives without anything really happening between them. I dreaded certain kinds of talking because they felt hollow to me, as if we were all politely taking turns placing objects on a table and then walking away unchanged. This is close to…

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