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Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement

"This book makes a case that productive disagreements can be our most valuable tool for deepening relationships, solving problems, and coming up with new ideas!"

2019

Buster Benson

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Hello, this is my book ✨

“Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement” explores a new framework / mental model / whatever you wanna call it… that frees you from the futility of unproductive conflict and pointless arguments. Sign up here to receive a free chapter from the book where I talk about why…

Polarization

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Polarization

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Here’s a list of some stuff I’ve written over the years that I don’t hate.

Here’s a list of some stuff I’ve written over the years that I don’t hate. Okay things I've written Articles I've written over the years that I don't hatebuster.medium.com

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·Feb 15

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Books

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Books

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·Dec 13, 2022

A Quirky Clock That Doesn’t Track Time

The conspiracy of Time and how to let go — One of the defining characteristics of entries on my list of ideas I’m mulling is that they keep popping up in my thoughts over time, whenever my brain has some idle time before bed or while folding laundry. Clocks, calendars, time, and various alternative ways to think about our relationship…

Productivity

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Productivity

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Dec 7, 2022

A Big Linky Map of Medium

An attempt at sketching out a bird’s eye view of the wide variety of different kinds of stories people are writing on Medium — The idea of building a big linky map of Medium is to help people explore the breadth and depth of stories on Medium. There’s a lot! And a lot of it is really good! To view this map in a slightly different format, click here. The taxonomy for the map…

Life

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Life

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·Oct 24, 2022

How to coach yourself

The standard model of behavior change is silly. Come read about my much weirder systems model! — Around the new year, people start thinking about goals and resolutions. I’ve written tips on how to create better resolutions — ones that are less likely to immediately fail — but after thinking about it for a while (I wrote that almost 9 years ago), I think it’s jumping the…

Productivity

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Productivity

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·Aug 15, 2022

Brackishness and Calendar Systems added to the idea list

These are the 7th and 8th ideas added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. The other ones are: codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, the capabilities approach, wicked problems, cognitive biases, and productive disagreements. I added these two together because they are pretty closely related in terms of…

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·Aug 10, 2022

Productive Disagreements added to the idea list

This is the 6th idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. So far, there’s the codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, the capabilities approach, wicked problems, and cognitive biases. I’ve been mulling this idea for a while… so there’s a lot of context to include here. …

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Productive Disagreements added to the idea list

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·Jul 25, 2022

Cognitive Biases added to the idea list

This is the 5th idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. So far, there’s the codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, the capabilities approach, and wicked problems. Cognitive biases are a wicked problem. …

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·Jul 19, 2022

Wicked Problems added to the idea list

This is the 4th idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. So far, there’s the codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, and the capabilities approach. It’s interesting to create this list in slow motion, because it’s inevitable that creating a list of ideas that seem to…

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