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I've been thinking about the internet.

Outline

• the internet is subtley diffused in our lives, making countless different things incredibly accessible at a moment's impulse
• there are structures in place to support and incentive to capture and monetize our attention
• thinking is hard, requiring time and quiet, but content consumption interferes with it
• once other people get involved, the emotional/mental shortcuts we experience on a personal level start to turn into polarization, echo chambers and misinformation

Discrete and Manageable -> Dispersed and Unwieldy

TODO: maybe half this length?

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I've been thinking about common understandings and expectations.

Common understandings are often unspoken and underpin how we navigate a lot of social situations. They often result in expectations of the way people "should act" and the way things "should be".

Expectations are the root of most of the satisfaction and friction that a person experiences in their daily life.

Let's go through how expectations affect how we respond to things, the joys and pitfalls of unspoken understandings and how the two factor into so many of our interactions.

Common Understanding

Try to think of a relationship that you have where everything is just silky smooth. The jokes always land, the going is easy, the tension is never taut and things just click, as they always have.

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Intro

Warning: this content is distilled soley from personal experience and completely lacks any sort of expertise (that's never stopped me before, though).

I've been thinking about conversations.

I hate to start off by being presumptuous, but it's likely that you've been a part of a lot of conversations. You might even remember some.

They're tricky things that ebb, flow and meander (like, are you a river? Or are you an exchange of words backed by gestures and facial expressions between one or more people?!). They strike out at unruly tangets and then come full circle. They end abruptly, with a sorrowful amount of things left unsaid and they drag on into the infinite depths of boredom. Sometimes they're heated in an aggressive way, while sometimes they're heated in a ... hot way. Sometimes it's all light-heared, care-free laughs, while other times the tension is palpable and the pressure is suffocating.

People are good at them and people are bad at them. Even more people are terrible at them. A s