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Learning to consult is hard. Even for Evil Martians with 19 years of experience, we keep learning how to consult, and teaching this skill is a very complex task. What if we consider a bigger task—learning how to live—and maybe, if we can tackle that, learning to consult would feel easier? Why human life is a poor abstraction, what is the fundamental problem of collaboration, and finally Irina’s recipe for fixing it, which is also what she teaches inside Evil Martians.
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