Why Polite Conversation is Dead
And how to have tough conversations instead.
3 min readAug 25, 2021
I hate being asked, “So what’s new?”, “What have you been up to?”. They are questions that never build good conversations because we always answer with either “Not much” or “I’ve been so busy”. At that point, you search your brain for another question with another dead-end answer. And why do we do this? Because it’s safe? Are we that…