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The Mysterious Stranger — My door was open to catch the cool breeze. I was entertaining my neighbors. She appeared suddenly, smiling. "Hi!" Who is that? I asked. A murmur. "Where are you from?" I mistakenly told the truth. Who is that? I asked again. Another murmur. She came right inside my house. With her cell phone. That was it. I pushed everyone out of my house. "What happened?" She seemed surprised. Pointing to her cell phone she had put on my table: "That's not allowed." I...
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Thinking Small — Even the simplest technical project requires help from others. When you have little social capital, you will find it hard to get anything off the ground. Sadly, social worlds are full of nonsense, and instead of gluing flap A into slot A, you can spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out the calculus of sociopathic human interaction. And one questions whether the project might not be conceived a little smaller, to get rid of some of the social overhead. And so the...
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