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Hard agree. It is such a fluid conversation, with instant asides, interruptive humour with redirects back to subject, riffs off what you're saying, etc. I love it. Crucially, I want to be interrupted too. As soon as you've caught up to my thoughts and have outraced them, interrupt me and take over.

West Coast America (at least, and possibly elsewhere) is pretty big on the do-not-interrupt culture, though, and I felt a little ashamed whenever I did it. But then I found not all people are like that and realized I have so much more fun with people who interrupt me and permit me to interrupt.

And it feels so natural. A slightly louder tone, a hand gesture, enough to say "hang on, here comes something"; but also enough of a signifier to you to move things along. I'm with you, man.



You get it :)




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