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Re: Body Doubling

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Post by ReactiveJelly »

peacharonies wrote: post #48
zach_garwood wrote: post #10

It's weird to me to call this "doubling" instead of "mirroring" but anyway, I'm not neurodivergent, but I've always found it nice to sit with someone else in silence, reading or studying. Its a very calming experience.

Mirroring has you copying the other's actions, thus performing the same task. Doubling allows each to work on their own separate tasks, from what I've understood.

It's still a confusing choice of words.

With my spouse I just call it like, "Could you be there for moral support while I rake the leaves / open bills / do whatever I don't wanna do"

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by ReactiveJelly »

nearmuse wrote: post #23

Sounds like the Japanese cuddling as a service.

Cuddling as a service seems to be done in America, too. I searched for "Cuddler for hire in (my state)" or something and got a bunch of results once.

Assuming they were not all fake. But since they're clearly posting a price (competitive with psychotherapy) and not pretending to be dates on a dating site, I doubt they're spam.

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by epolanski »

munificent wrote: post #61

There was a thread on Reddit recently asking what leisure time was like for people before radio, TV, and the Internet. Someone mentioned a memoir they'd read from the early 1900s and the part that stuck with them was how social everyone was. After work, people would go to friends houses, putter around town and catch up with neighbors, visit shops where they knew everyone, etc. I can't but think that so many of the ma…

Few things struck me on this topic in the last year:

- both me and my in laws are buying estate and I found it curious how to both of us (and most friends too), cameras and alarms were priorities

- leaving my old flat me and my SO realized we knew no one in the building

- went back to where my grandma lived in Poland. Classic but beautiful (really) soviet style neighborhood with parks, swings, etc. In the 90s it was so alive, children playing anywhere, women and men speaking on benches, there was a terrific super safe community. Going there it was just sad: no one around, most of the benches and trees taken down for endless waves of cars "progress" brought.

Re: Body Doubling

#135

Post by epolanski »

klenwell wrote: post #98
munificent wrote: post #61

There was a thread on Reddit recently asking what leisure time was like for people before radio, TV, and the Internet. Someone mentioned a memoir they'd read from the early 1900s and the part that stuck with them was how social everyone was. After work, people would go to friends houses, putter around town and catch up with neighbors, visit shops where they knew everyone, etc. I can't but think that so many of the ma…

On this topic, I find this article fascinating: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23758087 But life in New Jersey was not working out for Yarima. It wasn't the weather, food or modern technology but the absence of close human relations. The Yanomami day begins and ends in the shapono, open to relatives, friends, neighbours and enemies. But Yarima's day in the US began and ended in a closed box, cut off from society.

There's a related documentary of the immense damage brought by paleontologists to those tribes on netflix.

I thought about her too reading the comment.

Re: Body Doubling

#136

Post by bpicolo »

munificent wrote: post #61

There was a thread on Reddit recently asking what leisure time was like for people before radio, TV, and the Internet. Someone mentioned a memoir they'd read from the early 1900s and the part that stuck with them was how social everyone was. After work, people would go to friends houses, putter around town and catch up with neighbors, visit shops where they knew everyone, etc. I can't but think that so many of the ma…

Remote work exacerbates this eh

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by unity1001 »

pixl97 wrote: post #114
unity1001 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> many of the malaises that people suffer today, which we ascribe as individual psychological problems, are really just a result of how profoundly lonely and isolating media consumption is Media consumption is just a replacement for social interaction. And it exists only because people dont have time and energy left for socialization and other activities after work. Our society is geared towards extracting maximum pr…

>And it exists only because people dont have time and energy left for socialization and other activities after work. Did people not socialize in the days before worker protections demanded worker protections? I just don't think your reasoning covers the causes well, especially in the suburbanite 40 hour week type that travel by car for an hour+ a day to a single family home. Media consumption exists because technolog…

> Did people not socialize in the days before worker protections demanded worker protections?

Socialization was a luxury that certain segments afford before worker protections. Most families worked, children and all, and after doing what daily chore needed to be done at home, they slept. Socialization happened during dinner etc, which is why a lot of working class families used to give a lot of importance to dinner.

Re: Body Doubling

#138

Post by bpicolo »

imsaw wrote: post #130
munificent wrote: post #61

There was a thread on Reddit recently asking what leisure time was like for people before radio, TV, and the Internet. Someone mentioned a memoir they'd read from the early 1900s and the part that stuck with them was how social everyone was. After work, people would go to friends houses, putter around town and catch up with neighbors, visit shops where they knew everyone, etc. I can't but think that so many of the ma…

Is this why people like working in a cafe?

I love the ambience of cafes. People, aromas, usually well-lit (and not by moody halogens). Very energizing.

It's basically the only place I can muster the energy learning new programming-related things (not an IC anymore).

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by hinkley »

munificent wrote: post #61

There was a thread on Reddit recently asking what leisure time was like for people before radio, TV, and the Internet. Someone mentioned a memoir they'd read from the early 1900s and the part that stuck with them was how social everyone was. After work, people would go to friends houses, putter around town and catch up with neighbors, visit shops where they knew everyone, etc. I can't but think that so many of the ma…

There were idiots in the 50's crowing about how some day we wouldn't have to eat at all. I really wonder about the diet and favorite dishes are like for someone who thinks never eating is progress. And that's without even getting into the communal aspects of eating with a group.
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