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The Right Advice for the Wrong Person (opens the original)
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My husband got his hearing aids on Tuesday.The audiologist explained there will be an adjustment period. His brain will need to relearn how to process sound it hasn't had access to in years, and that relearning is going to be uncomfortable. She told him, “Stop asking yourself whether you're comfortable. Ask whether it is tolerable.” Comfort is the wrong test right now — almost everything is going to fail it. Tolerance is the test that keeps a new hearing aid user in the process long enough for t
Set a Time (opens the original)
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My friend asked me if I could talk. Of course I can! I gave her a window, asked her to set a time, and braced myself. <img alt="round black analog clock with a white face and black numbers and hands partially obscured in draped white linen" class="sizing-normal" hei
Kitten Lessons (opens the original)
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What that AI Disclosure Box Is Really Asking (opens the original)
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Sometimes I can’t let it go. Something feels off, something important is being overlooked. I can’t stop poking at it until I understand what I am sensing. I frustrate the people around me. I frustrated me — until my friend and colleague spent a year telling me to pay attention to that sense. Reminding me time after time that this sense has never been wrong in the time she’s known me. Now I give that feeling the benefit of the doubt, and I stay with it until the gestalt emerges.I’ve had this feel
Trust Isn't a Number (opens the original)
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