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13 I noticed last winter that I have been answering ‘how are you’ with ‘busy’ for twenty years, and busy was just the word I used so nobody would ask the actual question I wasn’t ready to answer about whether any of this still felt like mine

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Justin Brown @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 05/07/2026 23:09 EDT

I noticed last winter that I have been answering ‘how are you’ with ‘busy’ for twenty years, and busy was just the word I used so nobody would ask the actual question I wasn’t ready to answer about whether any of this still felt like mine

The word 'busy' is a piece of social technology that performs as an answer while being an evasion. After two decades of using it, you may discover the script has eaten the question underneath.

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