Popular... oh. I guess I haven't defined "good" yet, at least for this.

[there's a busy-feeling silence as Geir tries to nail down what exactly he's talking about when he says he isn't good at people. does he want to be popular? is popularity a good metric for what he's talking about? maybe not, he decides. Vern is less popular than him, but knows more about people. he needs to know more before he can decide whether he wants to be popular or not -- needs to understand who he's talking to, and what his conversation can do by accident.]

Maybe something like "not doing something you didn't mean to do." Or knowing what you're doing at all...