These "reductive" questions can instantly make a conversation feel heavy, etiquette expert Alison Cheperdak says.

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As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Like many Bermudians, I read the OBA’s recent calls for a “national conversation” about our challenges with interest. And on ...