Eugene's "Status as a Service" is one of the most important pieces I've read in recent times. Completely changed how I think of all the people on my whatsapp groups and the Happy Birthdays and the Good Mornings and the forwarding.https://twitter.com/eugenewei/status/1309584062231638016 …
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Replying to @NGKabra
Very long, and very good. IMHO there's another, positive-sum dynamic, more fundamental than status, which drives Good Mornings and HBDs, especially in small closed groups like family WhatsApps, where status established a priori.
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1/ As a social species, humans sense time as a sequence of interactions with other humans. Every greeting, like, RT, emoji reaction, every acknowledgment from a human of your existence is a *tick*, a significant event driving the perception of "time" for all participants.
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Replying to @tubelite
That is subtle and deep. Is there any further material on this that I could read?
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I wrote something like that in my pandemic time essay I think
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