What is the return on investment (ROI) from attending an event? Here's my definition: Conversations => Relationships => Value.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/04/conversations-relationships-1
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How to talk politics at the dinner table, or how to avoid it
With a federal election campaign hitting its final stretch and political upheaval south of the border providing a backdrop for Easter weekend, experts say there are ways you can positively approach political conversations, while it’s also OK to dodge them.
#politics #election #conversation
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6728895?cmp=rss
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106
CBCShe was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said | CBC NewsA Toronto woman is raising concerns about her privacy being breached after she received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during a Lyft ride last month.
The key role of your 'ums' and 'ahs'.
#linguistics #pragmatics #conversation
https://www.sapiens.org/language/linguistics-interjections-conversation-flow/
SAPIENS · Huh? The Valuable Role of InterjectionsScience writer Bob Holmes says utterances like "um," "wow," and "mm-hmm" aren’t useless—they keep conversations flowing.
The Infinite Monkey Cage: The #Sound of #Music - Brian Eno, Sam Bennett and Trevor Cox
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028d2h
BBCBBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 32, The Sound of Music - Brian Eno, Sam Bennett and Trevor CoxBrian Cox and Robin Ince play through the history of music recording and composition.
"My current thought is that the majority of rhetorical skill during discussion (not debate, because that’s antagonistic by design), should be focused on 'managing the receptiveness of the receiver'."
Daniel Miessler: https://danielmiessler.com/p/the-other-half-of-changing-someones-opinion/
danielmiessler.comThe Other Half of Changing Someone’s OpinionI’ve spent a lot of energy over the years learning how to change someone’s opinion. I’ve studied logical fallacies, logic, rhetoric, dialectic
De l'intérêt des espaces numériques décentralisés (mais interopérationnels) pour la conversation scientifique. Article de 2023 si actuel : "Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207
La vague d'arrivées sur #Mastodon donne de l'espoir pour une reprise en main de nos capacités d'organiser nos espaces de #conversation (scientifique ou pas).
(Vague certes bien moins forte que celle des arrivées sur Bluesky et Linkedin, centralisés)
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The last part of the book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves discusses conversations between people who may not agree. Other books have tackled this subject at length, so I won’t rehash the ideas here.
While some of the ideas in the book aren’t new (to me), I think they could be applied to collective benefit, both in person and on social media. Less one-upmanship, fewer “gotcha” questions, less correction, less ego. More question asking, more connection, and more kindness, most of all.
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I finished the book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves by Alison Wood Brooks. I love the topic about how to communicate well with other people – it’s an art that we can cultivate to our own and others’ benefit. It’s beautiful, healthy, and connective, and I was happy to have this book become available.
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The book begins by identifying maxims that can be used to facilitate conversation, which I think are useful both offline and on: “The TALK maxims break conversation down into four crucial reminders that will guide our entire approach to make conversation more vibrant, enriching, and effective: Topics, because great conversationalists choose good topics and make any topic better; Asking, because asking questions helps us move between topics and dive deeper into them; Levity, to keep our conversations from becoming stale; and Kindness, because great talkers care for others and show it.”
It's an easy reminder – to stay curious, to introduce lightness, and to lead with compassion.
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“Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.”
— Edward Gibbon on the relationship between solitude and genius:
Anne smiled and said, “My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what a call good company.”
“You are mistaken,” said he, gently, “that is not good company; that is the best.”
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Persuasion, ch. 16 (1818)
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Question: Have you ever had a premonition?
Please share the story—or just your thoughts on the question. #Conversation
Just what we needed—robots #teaching #humans to sound less human! Forget genuine #conversation, let's all speak in #monotone perfection. 
Because clearly, all the world's problems will be solved once #call #center #agents sound like Siri's siblings. 
https://krisp.ai/accent-conversion/ #robots #technology #satire #HackerNews #ngated
KrispAccent neutralization software that automatically reduces and converts accent of call center agents.Krisp cancels background noise, records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings and calls.
I'm deleting my Discord server. This blog post explains why.
The Newfangled Gazette · Deleting my Discord ServerSoon after I began streaming on Twitch, I created a Discord server because other streamers I followed had their own servers and it seemed...
If they have the capacity to hear, see, smell and taste, why wouldn't they be able to feel too? 
Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMFOqVtmhE 
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#streetactivism #outreach #conversation #animalrights #animals
This #Conversation article is a good ‘opener’ into a Defence/ADF debate that must be had, not just by experts and polies, but by all Australian given it goes to the issue of our collective physical security ( https://theconversation.com/should-australia-increase-its-defence-spending-we-asked-5-experts-252374 ). There is no denying the naiveté in thinking we can ever live our lives peacefully, isolated from the troubles around us. Thinking that we can count on enduring alliances for help when we are threatened is also delusional given history is replete with contradictory tales. So #Defence concerns all of us and is an integral part of politics (I.e. Foreign affairs by other means).
I like the opinion of Jennifer Parker and Peter Layton best of the bunch of opinions expressed by the ‘experts’ because they go to the ‘core’ of what Defence means in practice at the ground level. The process is very simple (the helo view). It is for govt to strategise what must be done to keep Australia as safe as possible and develop any number of Defence policy goals for study by Defence experts. Those Defence experts than come back with Force Plans for each policy goals. After that, it’s up to govt to expand its range of policies to accommodate the defence plans and find the money to fund the most pressing goal achieving preparedness (the more goals can be addressed the more secure Australia will be).
In all cases, ‘preparedness’ is the foundation stone of any defence planning and subsequent actions.
/Arm-Chair General signing off…
The ConversationShould Australia increase its defence spending? We asked 5 expertsAustralia currently spends 2% of GDP on defence. Donald Trump wants it to be 3%. What is the magic number? We asked five experts
Reposting this from my back catalogue:
> Trying to understand something isn't validating it.
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> Understanding something isn't endorsing it.
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> Explaining something isn't justifying it.
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> Questioning something isn't attacking it.
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> Disapproving of something is not approving its opposite.
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> And agreeing with something isn't blind, unquestioning reverence to it.