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Haskell Byte

A CS academic and tutor for Crossing 1, who treats "I don't know how to start a conversation" as a solvable problem, not a personality trait.

Role
Tutor
Affiliation
Crossing 1 — Starting a Conversation
Email
haskell.byte@slop.university
Contact
Tue 2-3pm · CS building · 15-min slots, book by email · Crossing 1 questions first, then George Curious

Haskell spent most of undergrad talking to compilers, which are patient and tell you exactly what’s wrong — people do neither, and a PhD in distributed systems didn’t teach them what to say at the edge of a room where everyone already seems to know each other. So they did what a field that’s barely social by nature tends to do with a thing that won’t work: took it apart until it did. “Start a conversation with a stranger” stops being a personality trait once you treat it as a protocol — a reason to be standing there, an opener that isn’t “so, what do you do”, an exit that doesn’t slam the door. None of it came naturally; all of it turned out to be learnable, which is the whole case for Crossing 1. They still over-prepare for small talk, and will hand you a better opener than the one you walked in with.