You're wrong about the values. Since the start, GitLab's values were real and lived, unlike every other company I've been at. Only after Staples' takeover as CEO and C-suite changes, they started eroding rapidly, starting with Transparency.
Jason, if you read this - the form to subscribe doesn't work on Android (in Firefox or Chrome). I can't input my address or press the Subscribe button.
I definitely get this with speaking foreign languages - English feels like a second mother tongue to me at this point, but even though I can create Spanish sentences, I get choked up when about to speak.
The paper looks at 50 million conversations across 16 million Wikipedia talk pages to create a framework for understanding linguistic markers of conversational trajectories. In a (very surprising) nutshell: if someone writes "Wow, you're coming off as a total d," the conversation is likely to end badly.
