Kill Your Identity - Erik Torenberg
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The limitations of labels
Kill Your Identity The limitations of labels Erik Torenberg Dec 23, 2022 75 5 1 Share In 2009 Paul Graham wrote a little essay called “Keep Your Identity Small”. In it, he talked about why conversations about politics and religion are so fraught with frustration. The reason why these conversations are so frustrating, as opposed to conversations about baking or climbing trees, are because politics and religion often involve someone's identity. “More generally”, PG wrote, “you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants ”. When
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