Dear Info,

I just want to point this out again. I’ve numbered the steps so they can be followed, even by a therapist like you.

1. You receive an email related to a client.
2. You mention it in passing to the client.
3. A few months later, you no longer remember the email.
4. And you no longer remember mentioning it.
5. But you are bound and determined that if you mentioned the email you don’t remember, it was because the client told you about it.

Somewhere between 4 and 5 there is a gap big enough to swallow the Roman Empire at its greatest extent. (1.9 million square miles, in case you care.)

Have we not already established that my memory is better than yours? So maybe accept my word on this?

You know, you’re better at hiding your defensiveness than CW or DBC was, but it’s still there. Ploughshares into swords in the therapist’s office.

ATAT