While exhorting college students to prioritize attending international conferences over forming college societies, I drew the following diagram:
It became apparent very quickly that this principle generalizes. Replace ‘people at your college’ with ‘people in your city’.
I stopped living in San Francisco a couple of months ago, and starting living on Twitter/Substack/online.1
I think my offline friends have misconceptions about what I do online. They think it’s a Bo Burnham song out here.
My offline friends tend to live in quadrant II. I split my time between quadrants I and II. Some of them only know the internet as quadrant IV. They don’t understand how I use Discord while eschewing videogames.
In reality, I now live in interest-space, passing between online and offline as works best with that.
It’s a nice neighborhood; I recommend moving here!
I’m still physically located in San Francisco. It’s just that my mind is often elsewhere — not on other cities, but in interest-space / concept-space.