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You reply in the comments, and i try to guess your age based on a short conversation we have. That's it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Grammar Police fails to capitalize the pronoun "I"? πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey pal, I'm here to enforce laws not follow them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have made that abundantly clear so far. And in so little space!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta let you know what you're dealing with.

Anyways, let's get to the age verification shall we?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assumed we were operating on your schedule.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right right we were. What's a word that accurately defines your personality?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What makes you thoughtful? Are you talking about thoughtfulness in the empathetic sense?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I chose the word intentionally, because it works in at least two senses: I am full of thought generally and I do things that exhibit evidence of having thought about others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So would you consider yourself the most thoughtful person in your friend group, or your family, and what is it that you believe causes your thoughtfulness? Maybe it's upbringing, or life experiences

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't compare myself to others along that axis, so I don't know. Also, it's very easy for a person to see themself as being superior to others when it comes to positive qualities such as that one.

As for why I'm like this, I imagine it's a combination of doing well in the genetic lottery combined with having reached a point of general comfort in my life that means I don't suffer from the same desperation-induced inward focus that others do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vary interesting. I definitely agree with the superiority complex thing. Tell me more about your personal relationships, that may include friends, family and partners. What do you hope to enhance, or are striving for within them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To treat them with more compassion. To react less sharply. For them to feel safer around me and with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, how thoughtful hehe. In what way do you wish to make an impact either in a field or to people around you, and are you actually moving towards it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I help software professionals make sense of and make peace with the dysfunction in their workplace. And I believe I'm doing that fairly well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, so like an organizational consultant. That's nice. How long have you been doing it for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems like an answer to that question risks rather trivially giving away my age, so I won't answer that one. πŸ˜‰

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh come on manπŸ˜…. That ain't fair. I need something to go off of. Okay, do you travel a lot? And if you do, tell me some of the places you've been to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I travel a lot now. I traveled a lot in the past. I travel across Canada now and I traveled around Europe in the past. I have traveled a lot between Munich and the western Russia border.

I lived for three months in ReykjavΓ­k, for three months in MazatlΓ‘n, and for parts of a few years I lived a few months per year in Stockholm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, i think i have an age in mind. You haven't given me much to go on, but i have a hunch you might be in your 50s. Maybe 51?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Close enough. I made it too easy for you. πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

No you didn't make it easy for meπŸ˜‚. You didn't even answer one of the questions that would've made it easy. Although i guess your not answering kinda gave me a clue too. Anyways, thanks for playing:D