Ah, I see your point  abrahamKim . The nuanced experience of 'dealing with' something is probably worth unpacking further... perhaps in a conversation with  dealingwith :P. 

I'm open to a Club...

abrahamKim  I'm intrigued already!

abrahamKim  I like where you're taking it - esp. in your second paragraph. There's and time & place for hammer-on and pull-off maneuvers, but trying to run an entire show...

abrahamKim  really interesting points here and I probably should check out The Everything Store to get the full picture haha. Lately I've been writing things through a very hopeful lens...

brianball haha, fair point. Any alternative suggestions? I'm open - will likely continue to write variations on this theme and am no married at all to the term 'slack'. 

abrahamKim...

I was once in a writing club with  abrahamKim  and this site feels like the social media version of that. I like knowing that other people will see what I...

abrahamKim  the reading list is growing exponentially. i need a machine to throw a random title at me to make progress on every day otherwise I'll never get to covering...

Thanks all, nice to be here! :)

abrahamKim  that's a tricky hypothetical... one scenario sounds immediately and consistently terrible (sincere about the wrong things) while one sounds like long-term attrition...