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Quarantine is too scripted. No serendipity. Twitter and zoom and discord are fine but just not as surprising or detailed as reality. I used to think the most potent sources of surprise in the universe is other humans, but that’s only when they’re not in quarantine.
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In normal times you’re constantly triangulating novelty by reacting to it and watching others react to it. For that you have to be in novel settings that generate randomness. Pseudorandom zoom backgrounds and Twitter don’t cut it.
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Even meme culture feels scripted compared to a busy sidewalk or a mall. And all social media conversations have a bit of claustrophobia going due to the missing cosmic background radiation of reactions to unscripted novelty jumping out at people from behind bushes.
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Oddly enough I don’t miss in-person meetings with friends that much, since I’ve been very online for a decade now. It’s the backdrop of humanity going about its business in public. Little slices of life you barely notice every minute when hanging out at Starbucks.
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I'm one of the people who specifically like working in coffee shops because of the people bringing color, ability to change working surroundings every day. One of the reasons i dislike coworking spaces – too static (and a terrible pricing model). I miss the background noize.
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