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kevinclark on March 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per mi...

We did a similar thing in debate. When one person says 'um', so does everyone else. Stops the habit fairly quickly.

ezl on March 13, 2012 [–]

our partner in cx would stand behind us and hit us on top of the head every time we said "um" or "like"

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