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TAoN No. 184: On icebreaking — including two new Icebreakers! And more.

Rob Walker
Apr 08, 2025
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Today, a slightly impromptu look at one of this newsletter’s long-running subjects: the icebreaker.

For years, TAoN has published a new, usually reader-submitted Icebreaker every few weeks. Recently The New York Times’ The Morning newsletter mentioned TAoN’s Icebreakers Google doc, collecting them. This resulted in a bunch of new subscriptions here. Welc…

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