Civility

The question that everyone asks a radio producer, that radio producers ask each other is: "So, are you working on anything you're excited about?" Which translates to, so...tell me something interesting. Entertain me! Do it now!

I hate this question. I loathe it. you have been warned, never ask me this question.
I am now assured that all of you will ask me this question first in any conversation.

But it is useful, it forces you to actually wheedle down all the millions of things you look at in one day and pick out something that actually excites you. Something that YOU are interested in, not something your target demographic might find useful, someday.

So children, today's interesting interview was with Dr. P. M. Forni of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Forni has written two books on the topic of civility, the long lost art of following societal rules for treating other people well. In his two books he outlines these rules, going so far as to advise extroverts on how to talk to intraverts and vicea versa. Civility he says, is the validation of another person through out behavior.

To me this is a very seductive idea. I love rules outlines, plans I can stick to and know I'll get things right. (Amusing then that I have no aptitude or love for math.) Nothing less than the physics of human emotion!