I asked what dates actually meant to him.
“It means commitment, that I can count on this getting done...”
(1/n)
Now, in many circles those words ring *all* kinds of alarm bells. They do with me.
But they can also be genuine, reasonable, etc.
(2/n)
“Oh sure, that would be fine. I mean that seems like a broad range, I’d like it to be tighter, but sure...”
(3/n)
“That would be even better. Less complicated. Feels like a long time, but I understand...”
(4/n)
“Absolutely not”
And that made sense. I’d need to paint the picture of how to address that problem somehow.
(5/n)
Bc I’ve sort of studied these types of systems, I have reasonably good intuition about the types of promises that can be kept, and the ones that can’t.
(6/n)
To make promises we can keep.
(9/n)
(10/n)