Q: How should you talk to people?
Q: Why should you talk to people?
HOW
general principles
- Sometimes itâs good to listen; sometimes itâs good to talk. You need to kind of gauge this by the person. Of course in an optimal situation usually you will arrive at some equilibrium of having a single conversation where all parties are engaged.
- But sometimes more unbalanced modes of communication are ok / can be reasonable starting points. For instance, when talking to someone âshy / not-talkative (yet)â it can be pretty reasonable to give a long enthusiastic rant about something.
specific techniques
- see also: questions to connect
- listening
- With multiple people, can be fun to say âfind property in each region of the ven-diagram generated by the set of people presentâ; Note that this question requires exponential time in the number of people present. But, probably lots of things do, so itâs best to limit your interactions to groups of about 4 people so that you can solve problems that require exponential time. Unless of course you are trying to do distributed computing in which case, you might want a lot of people.
WHY
- Forming connections with sentient lifeforms has some intrinsic value.
- learn cool things
- share ideas / get excited about ideas
Like I personally find that one of the parts of research that I enjoy the most is sharing the ideas.
Actually this gets into interesting philisophical questions, such as