Cut the small talk.

少说蠢话。

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But that’s the planned next step, when he will ask people to increase the number of substantive conversations they have each day and cut back on small talk, and vice versa.

但这还有B计划:梅尔将会让人们每天增加有实质性内容的交流数量，减少闲聊的时间，反之亦然。

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