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Henrik Karlsson writes about playing tit-for-almost-tat to bootstrap high-trust trade relationships:

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/scaling-networks-of-trust

where you do your neighbor a favor, they do you a slightly larger favor, you do them a slightly larger favor than that, until you're fixing their car and they're babysitting your infant for the weekend.

this feels like that for social interactions: you give people just a bit more of your energy than they bid for. neat to see a general model of allocating scarce social energy that doesn't depend on slotting people onto an introvert-extrovert spectrum.

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> the confidence to present your character like it’s a fun mask you’re wearing rather than a lesson you’re desperate to teach someone

This goes hard

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