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The Vance Crowe Podcast

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The Importance of Social Technology in Your Writing

In the past, there was some limit to how far your relationships could go. A letter could only go as far as you could find people to carry it for you. And that's when concepts like the dunbar number become deply important. Once yourat six thousand people, these aren't all your friends. They don't know what's going on at best. There's a reason that some political theorists refer to republics as communities of friendship. The full meaning of the social ology of friendship is perhaps one that's eroded overtime.

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