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Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement
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

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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. …

Polarization

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Hello, this is my book ✨
Hello, this is my book ✨
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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The Medium Blog

·Oct 24

October Partner Program Update

Balancing incentives in the Partner Program, preventing fraud, responding to AI-generated content, and an update on expanding to more countries — The last few months have been full of activity for the Medium Partner Program. We launched new earnings logic, instant enrollment, support for nine new countries, and a new stats page. …

Partner Program

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Partner Program

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The Medium Blog

·Jul 18

New Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing

Changes are coming in August to the way we pay writers for great stories and which countries we support. Here’s what’s happening, why, and what it means for you. — Medium is committed to remaining an open platform where anyone and everyone can read and write stories in a beautiful, ad-free interface. Since 2017, we’ve had a revenue share in place — the Medium Partner Program — that allows writers to earn money for their stories. Now, we’re making changes…

Medium

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New Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing
New Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing
Medium

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May 31

47 — CHALANT! ☄️

I’ve written an annual review every year for the last 17 years, and they’re getting weirder. This one is no exception! Here we go. — I was about to start this review by talking about a thing I realized in therapy recently, until I read my review from last year and could see that I was talking about it back then too. Here it is anyway. Recently (aka over the last year or two), I’ve…

Self

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47 — CHALANT!
47 — CHALANT!
Self

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The Medium Blog

·Feb 15

Become a verified book author

Have you published a book? Would you like to feature it on your Medium profile? Here’s how! — Hello, writers of Medium! Today we’re launching a new program that invites published authors to verify their identity by claiming their books. …

Books

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Become a verified book author
Become a verified book author
Books

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Blagenflorble

·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. …

Productivity

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A Quirky Clock That Doesn’t Track Time
A Quirky Clock That Doesn’t Track Time
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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A Big Linky Map of Medium
A Big Linky Map of Medium
Life

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Foolish Journey

·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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How to coach yourself
How to coach yourself
Productivity

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Blagenflorble

·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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