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The language around social death sounds figurative (“don’t show your face around here”) but is quite literal. Meatspace equivalent of mute/block. You can’t lie to yourself about it. You’ll know when you can’t stand the live presence of someone or when they can’t stand yours.
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I worked with a unicorn founder who would refer to himself by his last name, more in the way George III would call himself “England”