Smoking Skills

The key lesson I learned from cube farming is that "smoking" is a survival skill. It does not matter that you hardly know the issue. As long as the listeners are clouded by the smoke, you survive.

Like today.

I doubt the listeners understand what I was trying to share with them (as I don't even quite understand what I was blabbing about anyway). Somehow, they nodded at what I was saying and even asked questions that resulted in more smoke. What can I say? I hardly understand the issue, even lest their questions. Even my boss was smoking to some extent (I could tell because both of us kept looking at each other, seeking silent affirmation that whatever we said made sense).

So, "smoking" is quite a survival skill.

Even at the farmer level.