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Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Looks like an interesting tool from the landing page. When I tried to create an account with Google it asked for fairly expansive permissions: - See and download any calendar you can access using your Google Calendar - See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Are all these needed? Why would you need to delete a calendar from my account?

When permissions are grouped together like that by bullet, it's usually because Google's API only has 1 scope that covers all those actions (per bullet). My guess is they want to create new events on your calendar?

Looking at the Google Calendar API, it seems like if you want to grant an app the ability to add new events, you need to give permission to view all events and delete events as well.

https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/v3/reference/acl/...

https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/scop...

So it's kind Google's fault for that. Still that's a lot of permissions to request, I'd be uncomfortable even letting them have the ability to add or view events. Does it have a way to work if you don't allow it access to Google Calendar?

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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post #2

Looks like an interesting tool from the landing page. When I tried to create an account with Google it asked for fairly expansive permissions: - See and download any calendar you can access using your Google Calendar - See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Are all these needed? Why would you need to delete a calendar from my account?

When permissions are grouped together like that by bullet, it's usually because Google's API only has 1 scope that covers all those actions (per bullet). My guess is they want to create new events on your calendar? Looking at the Google Calendar API, it seems like if you want to grant an app the ability to add new events, you need to give permission to view all events and delete events as well. https://developers.goo…

I think all apps seeing all events is a usability thing. When you try to double schedule something every app can tell you about the conflict.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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I'm an introvert and often shy away from talking to strangers. But interestingly, I've always been pretty good at public presentations. I've received multiple compliments after my presentations. I'm often really confident when presenting my slides. Part of it is because I spend so much time creating content (slides) and in the process, I come up with creative ways to explain different things. I also tend to walk a bit during my talks and make eye contact with the audience and use my hands a lot.

I wish I could be like that all the time so that people could see the real potential and enthusiasm in me, but unfortunately I'm mostly reserved and don't initiate conversations especially with strangers. Aside from love life, it affects my professional life as well—lots of professors thought of me as a low-profile, shy student, but sometimes they'd get a glimpse of what I could be during my presentations and changed their mind.

Recently I started to start having some conversations with people I don't know and man, it feels great! I feel more confident just by talking to and asking peoples' names in the building. I guess the key is that I don't expect these convos to go anywhere. When you're introvert, the circle of friends is so small that people have so much value/influence on you. When you broaden your scope, you start to see other people as points on a sphere—as their value (being special) decreases, so does the fear of saying the wrong thing to them, so you are more likely to start conversations and have fun and see where things go instead of stressing over what you should say and whether they will be offended or not.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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In a leadership role. I would love this - particularly to help make me aware of when I should be holding more space for others. But the fact that the meeting data (audio/video) gets transmitted to a third party is a complete deal killer.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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I really detest the idea that there is a correct way to speak. Speaking is communicating, it is the fundamental way you develop relationships with others. Public speaking is no different, just more people.

Is there a correct way to be friends? No. And there is not a correct way to publicly speak either.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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This looks really exciting but I want to warn that this fulfills the following criteria:

- feels to good to be free

- it targets a problem that we all sense and fear when we interact with other people

- the privacy and security policy is legally invalid in California and the EU (missing both is quite weird as they’re very well known privacy standards)

- the email address listed inside the privacy and security policy is invalid

Before trying their service I attempted to request a proper privacy policy via their listed email address which returns me an error saying that this address doesn’t exist.

As Slack is listed as a company that backs this service, I just reached out to their support team to cross-check the authenticity of this new service. This is getting exciting..

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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I really detest the idea that there is a correct way to speak. Speaking is communicating, it is the fundamental way you develop relationships with others. Public speaking is no different, just more people. Is there a correct way to be friends? No. And there is not a correct way to publicly speak either.

There are, however, plenty of incorrect ways to be friends...

Improving communication skills is about avoiding massive pitfalls while allowing your unique voice to develop through practice.

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