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  "content_md": "The “companion on a cliff edge” is nice. I suspect that it reliably leads to a higher level of interesting thought, too. Keith Johnstone had this notion in Improv about why we’re drawn to large vistas; they allow us to unfurl, to be unobstructed. Oblique intimacy seems tied to that.\n\n> In the case of blyg, the choice is to make that dialectic somewhat oblique, by keeping the social graph aspect at arm's length, and the focus on content nodes rather than the centering the conversation itself. I have this visual image of 2 people looking at a scene together and commenting to each other about it, but not looking at each other. Like if you're both standing on the edge of the grand canyon that's what you're looking at.\n\n[This is functional unfixedness.… ↗](https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/t/2xcn9bn5zk9nyhsz1vqjw3vh9k)",
  "content_html": "<p>The “companion on a cliff edge” is nice. I suspect that it reliably leads to a higher level of interesting thought, too. Keith Johnstone had this notion in Improv about why we’re drawn to large vistas; they allow us to unfurl, to be unobstructed. Oblique intimacy seems tied to that.</p>\n<blockquote><p>In the case of blyg, the choice is to make that dialectic somewhat oblique, by keeping the social graph aspect at arm's length, and the focus on content nodes rather than the centering the conversation itself. I have this visual image of 2 people looking at a scene together and commenting to each other about it, but not looking at each other. Like if you're both standing on the edge of the grand canyon that's what you're looking at.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/t/2xcn9bn5zk9nyhsz1vqjw3vh9k\">This is functional unfixedness.… ↗</a></p>",
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      "source": "Venkatesh Rao's Blyg",
      "author": "Venkatesh Rao",
      "excerpt": "Can confirm. Have found myself lowering all the bars. It’s way easier to escalate from a “move” and through the intermediary stages to a Blyg. Leads to more thoughts, which means different thoughts,…",
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