Bad breath is kind of a metaphor for humanness, for being a human being, for loving somebody enough to tell them something that might be painful in the short term but very helpful in the long term.
I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.
negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships, so when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.
You sound smarter when you catastrophize. It sounds scarier and more interesting. And you put some bar charts around you talking about the zombie apocalypse in a downward spiral doom loop.
Signal is obsessed with maintaining the human right to communicate privately, and we have built an alternative communications platform that does just that.
negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships. So when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.
I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win, and maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.
4d ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
