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I don't think there was anything in there at all about being a dick?
Did you watch the movie clip at the beginning of the article dealing with how to sell real estate? The aggression of the character played by Baldwin towards his staff is exactly the kind of culture that seems to produce people like the agent I had to deal with.
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I do not, as a principle, click on Tim Ferris links, or that wine guy, or various other self-promoters. A hardline, yes, but it's a choice I have been happy with.
Fair enough, but in that case why comment on the articles if you haven't looked at them?
Nevertheles, I can assure you there is higher entropy in my shot in the dark response than the linked article, and I haven't clicked on the linked article :-) Call it a hunch, wisdom, or arrogance :-P
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Is the video at the top of the article.
I do not, as a principle, click on Tim Ferris links, or that wine guy, or various other self-promoters. A hardline, yes, but it's a choice I have been happy with.
Tim Ferris does a small intro.
Isn't 'Always Be Closing' from David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross? (though more emphasized in the film adaptation than the script) http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/glengarry.html
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Fair enough, but in that case why comment on the articles if you haven't looked at them?
Because the headline, as phrased, makes "ABC" seem to be an statement by Ferris. Nevertheles, I can assure you there is higher entropy in my shot in the dark response than the linked article, and I haven't clicked on the linked article :-) Call it a hunch, wisdom, or arrogance :-P
No no no no quit it no just stop no no no no no please just no
I went to look at a flat and it turned out that the agent had booked someone else at the same time to view the flat and then tried to turn it into an unpleasant contest for who could be the first to bring him a deposit, even going as far as saying that we could have a fight about it, even though neither of us had shown any issue with the other. We were both just standing there open mouthed and staring at him, wonderi…
If he truly was "always closing", he would have given you his attention and sold each of you individually - and hard - on the merits of the place. (And maybe, parenthetically, mentioned how much interest there was in it among other prospective renters...)
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Because the headline, as phrased, makes "ABC" seem to be an statement by Ferris. Nevertheles, I can assure you there is higher entropy in my shot in the dark response than the linked article, and I haven't clicked on the linked article :-) Call it a hunch, wisdom, or arrogance :-P
That is nothing to boast about, given that high entropy data is just noise.