http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-3141 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || The Art of Conversation || July || 2006 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:05:36 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/#comment-3141 [...] Mysterious connections [...] [...] Mysterious connections [...]

]]> http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-2109 Juliana Coughlin Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:16:05 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/#comment-2109 How can you POSSIBLY be worried about being boring when you can write like this! How can you POSSIBLY be worried about being boring when you can write like this!

]]> http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 Christy Wed, 31 May 2006 05:01:39 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2006/05/29/mysterious-connections/#comment-2085 There's certainly the conversational technique of sprinkling interesting references into your otherwise bland discussion and waiting for someone to bite; if their antennae twitch then you can elaborate. It's sometimes hard to walk this line (it's soooooo context-dependent, and you've GOT to know when it's totally inappropriate to tell the ice sculpture story, etc) but when it works it's a good vetting technique. There’s certainly the conversational technique of sprinkling interesting references into your otherwise bland discussion and waiting for someone to bite; if their antennae twitch then you can elaborate. It’s sometimes hard to walk this line (it’s soooooo context-dependent, and you’ve GOT to know when it’s totally inappropriate to tell the ice sculpture story, etc) but when it works it’s a good vetting technique.

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