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tldr: the movement of large conversations is a bit like trades in a market, where speech is an implicit bid on the value of what you’re saying

Raymond's Weblog^ tldr: the movement of large conversations is a bit like trades in a market, where speech is an implicit bid on the value of what you’re saying If you already find group conversation easy and comfortable then this post will be at best an interesting novelty. But somehow I keep meeting people who are much better at intuiting economics than at intuiting how to participate in large groups. What’s up with big conversations Here are some behaviours you might have observed in big groups and been baffled by: Some people get talked over, and other people don’t Some people get…

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