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11:46

MissConduct - Hello, everyone! I'll be online at noon--you can send questions (or comments, or snatches of random insight, or anything, really) in now, if you like.

11:59

[Comment From Ken Sylva]
Conduct is every moment that you are awake. Not just what you do at a dinner party.

12:00

[Comment From Ken Sylva]
(opps, I was not meaning that to be the end). I miss civility. I really wish there was a campaign to bring it back. We can have liberty with civility. Driving civility would make things better. Simple rule "don't do anything to a person in a car that you would not do in person".

12:02

MissConduct - A good point--although technology makes it easier for us to make mistakes. I was in Kansas City last week, and while I think there are plusses and minuses to social norms in both KC and Boston, they are FAR superior in good driving manners out there. One thing that impressed me was that the one time I had to be the big schmuck--because it was raining hard, and I couldn't see the sign I was looking for in time, so I cut people off--most people waved me on with a smile, like they understood what happened. It was nice to be given credit for my good intent even if I had done something wrong.

12:02

[Comment From veronica]
driving civility I think would be accomplished if we were all forced to be pedestrians for a year....I'm a much better driver after spending 3 years dodging cars in Brooklyn

12:03

MissConduct - Boston pedestrians can be pretty bad too, though!

12:03

[Comment From veronica]
well this is a bit of random insight: a woman I graduated from HS with has already been married and divorced before age 24....and instead of being all "woe is me", she's grabbing life by the horns and telling everyone that she LIKES being single right now and that we should all keep our comments to ourselves. and she has the envy of women she knows who have been married 10+ years and never had the strength to leave. I suppose we should file this under "never make assumptions about anyone's happiness or sense of self-worth"

12:04

MissConduct - I was also married and divorced by 24, and I agree that it doesn't have to get in the way of a good life!

12:05

MissConduct - People define success differently as individuals, and also define it differently at different points in their lives.

12:06

MissConduct - Which makes studying success--which is something I'm trying to do for other projects I'm working on--a tricky proposition! What's your definition of success? Has it changed over time?

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