Driving everything by reputation-weighted identities just creates echo-chambers you then cannot escape.

The most useful time for the blowhard spout off at me is at the moment it makes me most uncomfortable. Because the blowhard probably has a valid point at some level, he’s just being an ass about it.

When we meet that moment with discipline, are able to identify and respond to the kernels of truth and ignore the chaff belted out, focus on the merits of the argument irrespective of the source of an adversarial viewpoint, we thrive.

I like the blowhards just the way they are, unruly and insolent.

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