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The Good Hang Texting Taxonomy (Pt 1)
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Agalia Tan added
Here’s what’s ahead in this edition:
- An August of ideas: my California origin story
- The slow lift: a discovery
- Links and recommendations: not toooo many
- Checking in: what’s Robin doing?
Robin Sloan • The Golden Door
Pick four people a week to touch base with. It doesn’t need to be a long email or phone conversation—it could just be a quick “I was thinking about X and that reminded me of you” text message. It could also be a face-to-face meeting or scheduled phone call.
Jason Harris • The Soulful Art of Persuasion: The 11 Habits That Will Make Anyone a Master Influencer
on the tiny internet, it is so nice to encounter others or the evidence they were there.
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Agalia Tan added
bringing back the idea of serendipity on the internet!
Find a blogger who’s been slammed with cruel, vicious comments lately. Send them an email. Say something kind. Encourage them to keep writing.
Alexandra Franzen • 50 Ways to Be Ridiculously Generous—and Feel Ridiculously Good.
what’s up friends, enemies, and everyone in between including and especially the people who only see at a party once every three years but every time you do you just sit in a corner and talk and its a gangbusters good time like wow this person is great so great in fact that they KNOW not to harang you with the ‘omg we should hang soon’ garbage prom... See more
Maria Potoroczyn added
the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Keely Adler added
And try to be kind when we can. And maybe even