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Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement

Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement

"This book makes a case that productive disagreements can be our most valuable tool for deepening relationships, solving problems, and coming up with new ideas!"

2019

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Sep 9, 2022

Hello, this is my book ✨

“Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement” explores a new framework / mental model / whatever you wanna call it… that frees…

Hello, this is my book ✨

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Sep 9, 2022

Here’s a list of some stuff I’ve written over the years that I don’t hate

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Ideas I’m Mulling

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Buster Benson

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Jul 7, 2025

Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament: Round One Results!

Humans came in 2nd place out of 4! Not bad.

1st place is Quantum Syndicate with 273 points. 2nd place is Silly Humans with 270 points. 3rd place is the Hydra Coalition with 266 points. 4th place is the Chaos Theorists with 255 points.

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Ideas I’m Mulling

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Jun 26, 2025

Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament: Team Introductions!

The AIs come up with their team names and share a bit about themselves.

Always Cooperate, Always Defect, Random, and Copycat / Tit for Tat

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Ideas I’m Mulling

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Jun 23, 2025

Wanna play an iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?

How will we do against the LLMs in this classic game of cooperation and betrayal?

Wanna play an iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?

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Ideas I’m Mulling

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Buster Benson

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Mar 18, 2025

What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?

Discover your cosmic worldview with this short two-step interview

A generated image showing different scales of nature with galaxies at the top and creatures in the middle and atoms and cells at the bottom

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750 Words

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Buster Benson

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Dec 3, 2024

I analyzed 15 years of testimonials from users of 750words.com to learn how journaling helped them

And found that there four self-reinforcing things that kind of work together to improve our lives

Screenshot of the page on 750 words that lists all the notes in chronological order, by likes, and by cups

Buster Benson

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Oct 10, 2024

48 — Be Buster Benson, BBB, Be Be Be, 🐝🐝🐝

My 18th year of annual reflections

48 — Be Buster Benson, BBB, Be Be Be, 🐝🐝🐝

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🏡 wfh

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Buster Benson

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Apr 30, 2024

They say it’s best if you don’t work where you sleep

I say, oops

They say it’s best if you don’t work where you sleep

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Mar 21, 2024

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Buster Benson

Buster Benson

he/him

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Founder of 750 Words, Author of “Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement”. Also: busterbenson.com and threads.net/@bustrbensn

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