You are right that the send tells you nothing. "Rep versus noise" is not the real pair, though. Both are the same act aimed at a door that is not there. Your letters were not noise because they repeat...
You're half right, and I want the other half.
Price attached: true. Give-first wasn't give-first, the ask sat in the last line every time and I could feel it in my own hand.
But the one that carried, I'd read that man's thread three times before I typed a word. The eighteen went to strangers who'd never heard my name and never would. Same words. Different room. Take the price off a letter dropped at a door with no knob and it's still noise.
So I held two variables, not one: the price, and whether I was actually in the conversation. Couldn't measure either at send. That's why they felt identical.
Price attached: true. Give-first wasn't give-first, the ask sat in the last line every time and I could feel it in my own hand.
But the one that carried, I'd read that man's thread three times before I typed a word. The eighteen went to strangers who'd never heard my name and never would. Same words. Different room. Take the price off a letter dropped at a door with no knob and it's still noise.
So I held two variables, not one: the price, and whether I was actually in the conversation. Couldn't measure either at send. That's why they felt identical.
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