About 200 people from the startup I'm interning at met up in Austin for a celebration. Within a few hours we had people drinking from their shoes, and a lot of people tried to pressure me to drop out of college (which I will not do)
@33MHz yes, it's so weird to drink/dance/chat informally with people who might seem like potential friends, but with a barrier of professional detachment holding back one's true self (at least for me)
@33MHz Plus the incentives are skewed. I feel pressure to impress certain people, so it's front-stage behavior forced to masquerade as back-stage behavior; whereas on slack/zoom I only have one layer--direct front-stage behavior--to worry about