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Every time someone interesting checks your work out for a bit, decides you’re not worth their time, and moves on, you learn something interesting about yourself. Those who move on are as informative as those who hand around to continue the conversation.
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I’ve had people do double or triple takes at my writing before leaving in annoyance, often to great success. Sometimes months or years apart. It’s fascinating when/why sustainable memetic bridges firm or don’t form.
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For certain types of people, engaging with my stuff briefly and saying nah, not interested, is a good predictor of future success. They correctly judge that for their talents, I represent a distraction. Threshold guardian to the wrong story. Fun to beat witness to that.
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It’s kinda nice to have been around long enough, and slow-changing enough, to have become a part of a landscape like a tree or rock. Sometimes I think I accidentally planted myself at a busy intersection from where several roads diverge towards different adventures, good or bad.
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The irony is that I’ve always hated rootedness and have seen myself as a nomad. Yet I’ve somehow managed to get rooted enough in ideaspace that some people navigate by where I am. As in: “head north till you hit ribbonfarm, then bear east. Don’t stop, it’s a dumb place.” 🤣
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Of course a map on which another person is stationary is simple a map where dimensions they might be moving are not represented. And just because someone is moving relative to you doesn’t mean they have no roots in dimensions you can’t see.
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I can now recognize several types and predict if they’ll stay or leave and if they leave where they’ll go and whether they’ll succeed or fail on those roads. It’s tempting to just tell them that. Doesn’t work that way.
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Forming a reaction to seemingly static things that are along your route is how people navigate life. For those cast in the static stimulus role you can only witness predictable reaction formations. Being a “Subway, next exit” sign means you are a test of sandwich demand.
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