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Jonathan Abrams argument clarity score 4.3/5 from 11 exchanges on raw tape · average scores: directness 4.2 · coherence 4.6 · precision 4.5 · compression 3.8 record → ← everyone

Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q So you would not say, I'm genuinely intrigued here from a personal perspective. Would you not say it, or would you just use an alternative means of saying it?

A Well, I think it's just one of those terms right now that's been getting kind of trite and cliche. I've been hearing people use it too much, and it's just become a really trendy word, and I just kind of think it's interesting, because when I hear everybody talking about how they're investing in conviction, it makes me wonder why do they feel the need to say that. Is that they're really the opposite going on? Is it that people internally really are having some insidiousness But the lack of conviction, and therefore they feel necessary to talk about conviction, or does everybody feel that somehow conviction is a differentiator? I guess I'm just wondering why is everybody using this word so much lately, and it is getting to the point where, where I hear it, I just start sort of chuckling inside.

AI assessment note: “I guess I'm just wondering why is everybody using this word so much lately”

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Q like Nuzzle to grow, but is Nuzzle not like a marketplace where the value prop for each user grows as more and more users come online? You know, my, my Nuzzle now is so much better. Now everyone is connected in the networks. Do you know what I mean? The more of my friends that come on, the better my curation gets. Does that not make it easier to grow?

A Well, I said that it was hard for any news app to grow. So I think what a lot of people have found is that growing as an app only in the app store is really tough. And there have been some players that have really been just an app. So Nuzzle actually started off when we were in the prototype stage. As a website. And then immediately people started asking for an email digest. So of course we have Android and iPhone apps that have been featured by Apple and Google in a very high ratings, but we also have, uh, web and email, uh, presence, which I think is actually important for SEO and for virality. I think just being an iOS app, you know, or, or iOS and Android app alone, it's harder to grow. There's been some exceptions, but it's, but it's tough. And I think also, News apps in general as well. I think it's a tough, tough to really grow fast because even though you see people tweeting every day about how much they love Nuzzle, there are obviously news junkies who use Nuzzle and love it and tweet about it, journalists and VCs and other people. Um, you know, a lot of people just use, use a product like an email client or a news app, use it every day and do so, you know, sort of silently, uh, without necessarily talking about it. So that's why we think there's other things we can do that are actually more viral. Than a news app. So for example, we want to take all the power users wh…

AI assessment note: “Well, I said that it was hard for any news app to grow.”

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