“You see the other side's position. And then the leaderboard is the people who can cross the largest ideological divide, what's called a bridging bonus. You can earn bridging bonus by proposing ideas that your side and the other side can also agree.”

“I think the first is like, don't believe what I'm saying either. Like push back at me. Then it's like, if a proposal is given in front of you, kind of argue always. Like give me a proposal and come up with three different arguments that would make this obvious or make this non-relevant.”

“On the government side, almost everybody now is making, you know, in proposal phases, at least document what you used it for, which model you use.”

“I want to propose that the idea of a temporary disconnect from the internet may be the right strategy, depending upon what happens next.”

“One of the biggest mistakes… is putting a proposal in the way… ask what sort of proposal you’d like - maybe just an invoice or an email.”