Twitter FollowFriday – Martin Lindeskog

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This past week I had a great cross-cultural conversation with Martin Lindeskog, alias @lyceum.

Martin lives in Gothenburg, Sweden and calls himself “a rational egoist and an American in spirit”. Martin started following this blog a while back and asked some thought provoking questions on the LeWeb incident.  He was also one of the winners of the Problogger book competition I ran here last month.  I feel lucky to know Martin and appreciate his thoughts and comments in his tweets and on his blog.

As you can read in the tweet above, Martin has been blogging for a long time. 7 years.  A quick scan through Martin Lindeskog’s blog Ego and you will see that he is a thinker. He writes on a variety of subjects with thoughtful insights.  Martin also writes for the Open Forum.

Interested in hooking up with interesting international profiles?  Then I recommend you follow Martin on twitter @lyceum.

Discussion On Cultural Boundaries Using Nicknames

During our recent conversation we explored how we like to use words properly… or at least try to.  And we also drew parallels in our habits of calling people by their given name and not immediately jumping into nicknames which is a common American practice.  This naturally lead into a comparison of our limits into when using a nickname is offensive and when it is appropriate.

Although Martin and I have similar likes and dislikes with the use of nicknames our boundaries are not quite the same.  Comparing these boundaries made me think more about mine and position them more clearly.

This may seem insignificant to many people.  It is always easy to continue our standard practices of using nicknames acquired through our own cultural environment.  But when you communicate across cultures often it is fairly common to become at least a little put off by how someone addresses you.

The next time this happens to me instead of focusing on the other person’s “bad behavior”, I will think of my own boundaries.  My reaction will be tempered.

Yes, it was a short discussion, but it was thought-provoking.  Martin is a great guy to hook up with online.

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