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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

I definitely do both with the extroverted middle of facilitation of groups.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

"I get comments from smart folks."

There's no need to make all sorts of baseless assumptions about me here.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Leave it to the guy who speaks 5 languages and to whom I turn to advice about AI literally every day to assume I think he's smart!

Truly though, our value derives from our dad joke skillz.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

3.5 languages, technically. Or 4, if you round up my half-baked Ukrainian and Czech skills into a single full language somehow. Uczechian?

But yes, dad jokes are the ultimate source of my wisdom.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

No kidding, I think I'm developing some kind of bridge-language for speaking to AI. It's not really the same w/typing, but my speech patterns are changing a tiny bit.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I was forced under duress to write a blog post on the nascent, now dead technet community.

Just the one; 20yrs later Substack is more fun.

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Keva Epale's avatar

I agree, we share that drive :) I guess, once you fall into the pot, you create many pots. Also, It's good that we are fueled to keep on with play... Unstoppable creatives 🔥 It sounds like a league name.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

"Never stop playing."

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Keva Epale's avatar

Same to you.

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Keva Epale's avatar

Andrew, you are a true Multiple in One! I knew you loved books 📚 Wow, I am looking forward to reading your published work in paper. What a fun journey, keep enjoying the ride 👏

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Thanks, Keva! I just can't stop myself. It's a big part of who I am, I think. You too, though! You're super creative and don't seem to be able to stop. I think that's the big thing we share in common.

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Sum's avatar

Keep doing what you’re doing and being who you are…

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Andrew Smith's avatar

It's really tough for me to be anyone else, honestly!

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Sum's avatar

Still, people try to be younger than they are, prettier or more handsome than they are and more healthy than they are. I bought myself a red sporty car once and a friend told me I was trying to capture my youth . I said it was becoming very elusive….one of those things where one’s reach exceeds thei grasp…

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Absolutely, although even when you're chasing someone else's identity, you're still being yourself. :)

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David Perlmutter's avatar

You reminded me I had a HubPages account- I'm going to try to start using it again.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Hey neat! I don't love the platform, but it taught me a lot about writing and publishing. It made a lot of the hard stuff easy, too.

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