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Plexus

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Plexus is a new kind of social network, where people connect through mutual thoughts, not mutual friends.

I read an essay that challenged Dunbar's number. Whether or not ~150 is the threshold for human community size, I like their more nuanced conclusion: we have finite surface area for social connection. I want to explore the feelings computers can evoke, on the fringes of mainstream software design. Haven't found many people pursuing truly "organic tech." I'm a community-builder, a yoga teacher, an oil painter in-training, and an aspiring fiction writer. I'm wrestling with my identity as someone who doesn't have strictly one job. For when you change homes, jobs, hobbies, friends, relationships,

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