Being Dallas Taylor: Meeting my name twins
Twenty Thousand Hertz
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Do You Have a Name?
Names are incredibly rich signals. Every time we hear someone's name, we're forming impressions about a likely age, gender, ethnicity, even socio economic status or geography. A name is really a whole human ntity in word form, and you can't help but feel so deeply attached to it. There are two kinds of similarities people can have from sharing a name. Parents who have something in common are likely to choose similar names. So the name dallas, for instance, is a name that's most popular in an area of the country that maps to essentially country music territory, minus texas. You'll never meet some one named brooklyn in new york city, but
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