Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

Most Advice is a Memoir, Part II

What happens when the storyteller has something to sell you

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Eric Near
Aug 04, 2026
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Last time I wrote that advice is autobiographical: a story about someone else’s context, offered to you as if it were a set of instructions for yours. What I didn’t get into, because it deserved its own space, is what happens when the storyteller has a product to sell you at the end of the story. That changes the transaction completely, and it is happen…

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