Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversation: on a Hinge date, doomed but persisting as a form of protocol. At a publishing party, surrounded by people who look and talk like me, all of us a little drunk but maintaining our nervous, manic professionalism.
especially love how she describes how tired everyone seems
Considering how many attendees were probably recent crypto enthusiasts…
“thin, sort of stretched, like butters scraped over too much bread.”
It’s not easy, being on the bleeding edge - all that blood loss has measurable effects on health and vigor!