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- ABOUT Version 2
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.
You Don't Need an About Page version 2
There are ways to find out who someone "is."
You can visit their website.
You can find the About page.
Or you can listen to them.
Really listen.
Because sometimes the person speaking, tells you considerably more about themselves through the questions they ask than through anything they have written about themselves.
For this Audio-About Page, I start with an unlikely place: The Matrix Reloaded.
Seraph doesn't look Neo up.
He doesn't check his credentials.
He doesn't search for an About page.
He fights him.
6 min - ABOUT
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.
You Don't Need an About Page
There are ways to find out who someone "is."
You can visit their website.
You can find the About page.
Or you can listen to them.
Really listen.
Because sometimes the person speaking, tells you considerably more about themselves through the questions they ask than through anything they have written about themselves.
For this Audio-About Page, I start with an unlikely place: The Matrix Reloaded.
Seraph doesn't look Neo up.
He doesn't check his credentials.
He doesn't search for an About page.
He fights him.
9 min
About Open Air Talk
From the publisher's feed
"I hear you, but—"
"With all due respect—"
Notice what you feel before the next word even arrives. That flinch is the whole business. We didn't invent it. We…
just stopped pretending it isn't there.
What you just felt wasn't a speaking problem. It was a failure of meaning.
The words above weren't unclear. You understood every one of them. What you felt was the gap between what was said and what it did — the sentence landed as distance, not connection, before the speaker even finished it.
That's the pattern this podcast is built on: every sentence either brings someone closer, or pushes them further away — the email, the meeting, the apology, the joke, the argument over dinner. Not eventually. In the sentence itself.
Most communication training teaches you to sound more confident, more polished, more persuasive. That's not what this is. This is about noticing what your language is already doing — to the people in front of you, right now — and choosing differently.