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We use Slack for intraoffice communication. Even before Covid, when we were not working hybrid, people were often on site, away from their desks, so asynchronous communication was absolutely necessary. That does not mean that everything in our Slack discussion is life-and-death engineering…

Two takes on the same topic, yesterday: exactly how self-absorbed are New Yorkers? Tim posted this famous bit of art from 1976:

Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Credit “David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.”

And I responded with the only line from John Updike that I know by heart:

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

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