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The Litmus Test

Via diveintomark, Leslie Harpold: Litmus Test.

I can tell right away if it's going to work out. I ask one question. I have more to follow it, but it's the one, you know? The one that tells me everything I need to know.

"What do you think I should know about you?"

There are all kinds of right answers. Infinite numbers, so many it's exponentially easier to be right than wrong.

Sometimes they talk about money. This is the third worst response. I never know what to do with the money guys but smile and nod, maybe slur out the word "Interesting," in a kind of disingenuous "I'll be changing the subject soon" kind of way. The worst possible response I only got once, and it was a lesson I deserved. "There's really nothing I feel you should know yet."

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