Author:: Anne Helen Petersen Link:: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/against-feel-free-to-take-some-time Tags:#media/article
- Summary::
- idea of permission structure where it’s not a boundary (which is malleable to other people’s needs) but a solid guardrail. permanent ideas
- very related to what i wrote about in lower-pressure-contexts #lower-pressure contexts
- intersection between culture and technology changing culture is how you change society
- in order for technology to shift norms, you have to shift the culture to one receptive of the technology ^iRchDjwtJ
- idea of permission structure where it’s not a boundary (which is malleable to other people’s needs) but a solid guardrail. permanent ideas
- notes::
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But even that permission structure can be improved upon. When someone emails me with some stray thoughts and prefaces it with “Absolutely no need to respond, I just want to tell you…,” it transforms my relationship to the text. Instead of an obligation, it becomes a diversion, a set of thoughts to sit with — and, I find, it also means that I eventually do end up responding. The more specific you can be about what you actually need with a communication, the better.
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