Jennifer 🆖

🍦🚴‍♀️🍵⛄ lover. ❤️ the Discourse. Writing a novel and various essays. Tin House & Kenyon Alum. UXer. Bay Area native. Thinks a lot. Words and views all mine.

[Jennifer 🆖 @jennism]

A wise man once said, "Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos." #icecreamtravelguide may help. Out now https://t.co/B3sdQHchb3

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This only makes sense if you're hanging out with a certain class and financial standing in SF. My network has widened to artists, nonprofits, and service workers. It is just different.

[David Perell @david_perell]

Went out drinking in New York with a friend from San Francisco last month. The bar was crowded and drinks were flowing when he said: “The people here are so nice and non-transactional, which is very different from SF.”

The difference, he thinks, is that New York is a multi-industry town while San Francisco is dominated by one industry: tech.

That matters because people are more likely to stay on their guard in one-industry towns. In San Francisco, if you meet somebody, you probably know the company they work for or somebody they work with, and at the very least, there’s a decent chance you’ll cross paths in the future.

New York is different. It’s home to a bunch of different industries, so there are a bunch of different status hierarchies: fashion, finance, theater, advertising, media, real estate, and so many more. The status ladders are parallel, not stacked, which relaxes people.

His theory: The more distance there is in the average social connection, the less transactional people are and the more comfortable they are letting loose.

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For many reasons, this is meaningful to me https://t.co/Ye31PVZWnn

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Just here to quietly say that I wrote 50,000 words this month for the 12th year despite the mess that November has been

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@NicAnstett I can't believe this racist trope has resurfaced so visibly

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@vidhster Not sure how that's different from being followed to a single family house? Or even people who live in buildings with only a few units? Plus a lot of this information is available through public records. We reveal so much personal info elsewhere unintentionally

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I am sad that this was cut out of the NBC broadcast https://t.co/E5rsNrCdCC

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Friendly reminder that this site is not real life

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Happy national ice cream day!? 💙🍦🍨😎

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I miss live *good* chat during shared cultural events

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@exuberantfool But hopefully you won't ever have an injury to need a lawyer like this. I have opinions.

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The most Asians I have seen this week in Denver has been in line for ice cream

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So sad that the last time I went to a large professional conference for my day job, twitter was the place to connect and get different povs. Now it feels...so empty?

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If you're asked to do something unpaid, that doesn't mean that you need to also do IT for free

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For the record, there are many great onigiri places in SF. Like Onigilly, Kissako Tea, Super Mira. An old neighborhood favorite Bon, Nene

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Concept art to prove excitement for a nonexistent product pales in comparison to Nathan Fielder like parody that reveals the truth about ourselves

[Eater SF @eatersf]

According to a thread on X, some 7-Eleven stores are selling Japanese onigiri — with a photo of Mayor London Breed on the wrapper. https://t.co/wy3xOQXtXi

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Wordle 1,000 🎉 4/6*

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10 years ago, I read this and then decided to put energy in non-work things. All worth it.

[If Books Could Kill @IfBooksPod]

Episode 27: Lean In

In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg delivered a simple message to women: you are faced with tremendous structural hurdles in the workplace, but if you overcome them, you can get rich by illegally selling user data and so forth.

https://t.co/Rb3mWHD1cd

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@lilastories I was told that people who use 24 hour time might say this! But still it doesn't make sense why things would blow up at noon rather than midnight. This idiom!

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Why is it at the 11th hour, not the 23rd hour?