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29 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised (Live at 92NY)
“That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery.”
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- Craig Newmark
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- evaluation
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- 29 Apr 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…We’re simulating social skills just fine here. That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery. I can do it for short amounts of time, maybe 90 minutes. I’ve given up, though, on actually accumulating social skills, getting better at it. More to the point, I try to get into positions where other people can show social skills. One journalist once described you as having “obsessive customer service disorder.” Isn’t that a social skill?…
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