How to Be Less Awkward — Adam Mastroianni

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Subtitle: A three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction

Read: Layers 1 and 2 are familiar territory. The coverup-worse-than-the-crime frame and the attention-outward frame already exist in the user's mental operating system.

The centipede poem is the canonical folk-wisdom version of the choking phenomenon: explicit attention to an automated skill destroys the skill. The user's Choking Under Explicit Attention (if not yet canonical, this article is the trigger to create it) is the…

** That maps onto the brain's Dont Be The Source Of Someone Elses Awkwardness (if not canonical, this article is the trigger): the highest-leverage awkwardness move is not being the next person who hands out a lifelong complex. The article's closing is also the…

How it's structured

  1. Source / Provenance Verbatim text recovered. Body extracted from window._preloads JSON in the wrapper HTML; 30,477…
  2. The user's reaction (preference signal) User said: *"I've thought about the first few points before, but it's nice to have someone else to b…

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