I’m not sure how to use this advice/observation. I think the purposes for discussion, style and knowledge of participants, and social expectations of that particular setting vary pretty widely, and other than “make the implicit explicit” in terms of getting what you want from the interaction, there’s too much existing nuance to generalize advice like this.
There are specific conversations where allowing the conversation to meander and allowing the conversational stack to grow and blend are OK.
I think this exemplifies my point. Except I think it’s the majority of conversations, and in my experience, the default. The exceptions are conversations explicitly trying to establish agreement on some topic or some other agreed purpose.
I’m not sure how to use this advice/observation. I think the purposes for discussion, style and knowledge of participants, and social expectations of that particular setting vary pretty widely, and other than “make the implicit explicit” in terms of getting what you want from the interaction, there’s too much existing nuance to generalize advice like this.
I think this exemplifies my point. Except I think it’s the majority of conversations, and in my experience, the default. The exceptions are conversations explicitly trying to establish agreement on some topic or some other agreed purpose.