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Jefferson Fisher has built a reputation on social media for teaching people how to tackle tough conversations with confidence. By Julia Bozzone Jefferson Fisher, a Texas trial lawyer, didn’t set out ...

How do you cheat at a conversation? This could have been a Zen koan, in different times. In the unfortunate times we live in, it is the question driving an artificial-intelligence tool called Cluely.