Culture encodes silences with meanings. We have context-sensitive opinions on rudeness/civility/caring levels of various silence durations..
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...the big challenge for those of us trying to go maximally asynchronous in our lives is to drain silences of their cultural significance...
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...the best way to do that we've discovered so far is to legibilize conversational state enough to "park" them between attention episodes...
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...to the extent relationships *are* a shared stream of consciousness, to legibilize a state enough to save it is to make it transactional..
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'Put a pin in it', 'to be continued', 'where were we'? are interesting convo pause/resume remarks that try to minimize state legibilization
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