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        "plaintext": "I think we need to share more."
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        "plaintext": "I think I need to share more."
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        "plaintext": "Every day, people are asked \"how are you?\""
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        "plaintext": "Every day, people lie."
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        "plaintext": "I feel like there are lots of reasons we don't speak up.  Life has a way of shutting us up."
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        "plaintext": "I feel like one of those reasons is the idea that people's thoughts aren't \"on topic\"."
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        "plaintext": "I know there's a little part of me that thinks that nobody wants to hear what I have to say, especially if it's not about the specifically nerdy topics I'm \"relevant\" enough to speak about."
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        "plaintext": "I feel like that's a concern that creeps in over a career: you've gotta stay \"on brand\", right?"
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        "plaintext": "I think a lot of us are in the habit of preemptively shutting up.  And I'm going on out a limb and saying that might be a bad habit we can all try to break."
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        "plaintext": "So let's go off topic."
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        "plaintext": "Let's go off brand."
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        "plaintext": "Let's talk about anything and everything."
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        "plaintext": "I hope this will be fun."
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        "plaintext": "Let's find out."
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  "textContent": "I think we need to share more.\nI think I need to share more.\nEvery day, people are asked \"how are you?\"\nEvery day, people lie.\nI feel like there are lots of reasons we don't speak up.  Life has a way of shutting us up.\nI feel like one of those reasons is the idea that people's thoughts aren't \"on topic\".\nI know there's a little part of me that thinks that nobody wants to hear what I have to say, especially if it's not about the specifically nerdy topics I'm \"relevant\" enough to speak about.\nI feel like that's a concern that creeps in over a career: you've gotta stay \"on brand\", right?\nI think a lot of us are in the habit of preemptively shutting up.  And I'm going on out a limb and saying that might be a bad habit we can all try to break.\nSo let's go off topic.\nLet's go off brand.\nLet's talk about anything and everything.\nI hope this will be fun.\nLet's find out."
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