Reading this thread made me realise I developed this as a defence mechanism and have honed it over many years, but as you say it's a great social skill as well.
It's amazing how many conversations you can have about interesting subjects (and thereby dodge smalltalk) by simply rewording them into something everybody at the table can understand.
> There is of course the most obvious horrifically misguided recently-popular "decentralized" system, whose name shall not be spoken in this essay. Instead let's back up to something older and better understood: markets.
My reading was the author was referring here to cryptocurrencies and you read the article, claim it's profound, and then spruik an ERC-20 token.
Really exciting, I wish you would display what keys you are pressing in the demo video though, as it was hard to track down how to find bindings such as the file-picker (I come from sublime where it is bound to ctrl+p)
It's amazing how many conversations you can have about interesting subjects (and thereby dodge smalltalk) by simply rewording them into something everybody at the table can understand.