
Why Are We Yelling?
A book about the art of productive disagreement
It was published with Portfolio, an imprint at Penguin Random House. It can be purchased at any book store. Here's a link to Amazon: https://amzn.to/36nBlvJ
The full timeline of the book's progress is here: https://busterbenson.com/book/timeline
The book's primary market is anyone who feels like they are stuck having unproductive disagreements in any part of their life.
It walks through "8 things to try":
- Watch how anxiety sparks
- Talk to your internal voices
- Develop honest bias
- Speak for yourself
- Ask questions that inspire surprising answers
- Build arguments together
- Cultivate neutral spaces
- Accept reality, then participate in it
There are bonus materials available if you buy the book and email the receipt to "iboughtwhyareweyelling@gmail.com" including downloadable reference guides for developing honest bias and guidelines for productive disagreement, a couple cognitive bias cheat sheet desktop wallpapers, and a code to get a few free months on 750words.com.
About
It was my attempt at synthesizing 20 years of working in tech as a product leader, and integrating it with work that came out of my Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet and interest in conversational habits.

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