Small talk gets a terrible press, mostly from people who have never had to sit next to a stranger for two hours.
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It is a handshake, not a conversation. Complaining that it is shallow is like complaining that a door is not a room.
It is the protocol handshake. Skipping it does not make you direct, it makes you unreadable.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.