chitchat

“Say, Faucet old chap, come join me in my study for a cigar. Too much chitchat going on in here, what?”

A lot of hedge fund managers spent time chitchatting with their investors and treated their quarterly letters to them as a formality.

The next two hours were filled with chitchat in between sets: Nicole’s end-of-school-year frenzy, Rich’s musician thoughts about those sweet drum riffs and where we should all go to grab a bite after.

Why spend energy on casual chitchat when Viv was always ready to dive deep?

The school system’s chief financial officer, for example, doesn’t want to chitchat and won’t share data until he knows what you’ll do with it.