About meeting Tim for the first time at his office. We were having a fight (translation: a friction about what normal human means). I wrote a list of things I knew about him. Abridged version.
Ten months. Here is what I know about Tim…
- 48 years old
- psychology wasn’t his first career
- two cats
- signs all communications with Initials, for simplicity and ease.
- wears fleece zipup when cold.
- thinks out loud—sometimes the thinking arrives in three contradictory pieces before it resolves.
- conscientious; goes the extra step to find reference materials that are relevant
- doesn’t want me to do things for his validation or to make him happy.
- the confidence that he can interrupt me — unproven in my experience but claimed.
- appears that nothing people say to him creates embarrassment
- when liking something I’ve created, he genuinely says so.
- quiet or noiseless laugh
- neutrality is the default. solidarity is not beyond him.
Completely legitimate for a normal human to have a superpower.
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