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"Technical" Skills

If you've ever said "soft skills" and felt weird about it, this essay is for you

It took a movie about rock climbing, a historic run by the Golden State Warriors, a broken sewing machine, and a serendipitous Slack comment, but I finally put my finger on it. Sure, his dad was a pro, he played from a young age, and he had access to coaches—but so do lots of other players who stayed average, including (sorry, Seth Curry!) Thanks to early readers for their encouragement, feedback, and critique, including a Slack user named Angélique, Laura Duane, Nick Seguin, Laura Lindzey, Fabian Tamp, Zach Lipp, Mindy Preston, Adam Kelly, Alex Chen, Stephanie Losi, Aditya Athalye, Emily Vomacka, Erika Rowland, Marilyn Cole, and probably others that I am forgetting now three months after its original writing.

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