I mean she kind of implied a reason why some people are “rejecting” her. I don’t want to talk professionally after work with certain people as I don’t gain muc

I mean she kind of implied a reason why some people are “rejecting” her. I don’t want to talk professionally after work with certain people as I don’t gain much value. Certain people I enjoy mentoring, certain people I don’t. I don’t want another “task” to do. Also people with “too many” friends I find a little fake. You can’t expect me to take you seriously if you’re trying to maintain “close / intimate” friendships with 100 or more people. > The number of people I speak to on any given timescale far exceeds Dunbar’s number, and if I took every instance of rejection personally, I would be a very depressed person. I have lost friends, acquaintances, and people who exist in the liminal space between the two for all sorts of reasons: I’m too flaky, they don’t like what I write here or on Twitter, my real or imagined allegiances with people they’ve decided are their enemies, I don’t sufficiently respect their otherkin identity, they don’t sufficiently respect my professional identity. >Sometimes it’s because I’m being an ass, but a lot of the time, it’s just a statistical normality. Cast a wide enough net, you’re bound to lose a certain number of fish.