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What does it mean?
The speaker notes surprise at telling both Malcolm and Ilya the same thing.
In plain terms
I didn't expect to say the same thing to Malcolm and Ilya.
What can you take from it?
Different audiences may receive identical messages.

Where it applies

  • team meetings
  • cross‑functional updates

Putting it to work

  • prepare unified messages
  • recognize shared concerns

Questions to consider

  • When is it useful to repeat a message?
  • How can you tailor repeated messages for different groups?

Another view

Repeating the same point can be redundant if audiences differ.

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  2. And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.

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