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Notes on conversation as a skill you can train.

• October 12, 2026Placeholder

  The one-sentence story

  If you can't tell a story in one sentence, you don't know what it is yet. A short method for conversational stories: one action, one emotion, then grow it to three sentences.

• October 8, 2026Placeholder

  Lenses: a simple way to stop running out of things to say

  Six lenses for replying to anything someone says: history, philosophy, metaphor, specific, broad and related. How each one works, with examples.

• October 1, 2026Placeholder

  Why small talk feels hard, and why that's fixable

  Small talk isn't pointless. It's a warm-up most of us never practiced. A short case for treating conversation like a skill you can train.