Day One at the salt mines

So I went, and chatted with them. The NID has often called me there and not mentioned where in that vast place to go and you have to blunder around asking people until you find the room where you are supposed to be, but today a staff member called Binota very considerately called as I was driving there and told me where to come. Thank you, Binota.

This bunch is very well behaved and receptive in that they all turned up more or less on time and was quite attentive to everything.

Not as responsive and argumentative as I’d hoped but it was the first session and I hope that they will unwind a little and argue and question everything I say (otherwise the swollen head I am often accused of having, totally unjustifiably in my humble opinion, will continue to swell).

Maybe there’s a lesson there. Everything I covered sounds so logical and self-evident that perhaps there’s nothing to argue against. Which means one must find ways to make it provocative and capable of generating different points of view. Now how does one do that? Advise anyone?

But a very nice bunch to talk to. I think they’re quite “getting it”. Which is immensely satisfying.

Tomorrow will bring feedback and then I’ll know more. Watch, as they say, this space.