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A small practice for the unexpected audience

A practical exercise: Check whether the humour is kind and understandable to that person.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Room for play

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A private joke is about to be shared with someone outside its context.
  2. Check whether the humour is kind and understandable to that person.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

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