Jacob Shymanski
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Appearances Over Time
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Literally lost sleep over that.
You have to tend and befriend.
It's less cowardly than running away.
Exactly.
It's the pragmatic thing to do because when you tend and befriend, you better understand what you might right now perceive as the enemy.
Yes.
But if you run away, then you'll never understand the true nature.
You know.
For the first 10% of the book, I thought it was a work of science fiction.
And then I saw the main character was called Kaya.
And I said, what kind of conceited author makes their main character?
And I looked it up to see if I was correct.
And I was like, oh, it's a memoir.
Oh, never mind.
This is crazy.
The book itself is a lot more than a work of literature.
It's a work of anthropology.
It's exactly the type of thing an anthropologist would be doing.
And digital anthropology, by the way, is a fascinating field.
A lot of your work is fascinating.