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> [At] an intimate dinner party in Los Altos Hills, Brex Supper Club salons, [...] the rules of the house are increasingly Chatham. What a strange comment. If

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > If after attending a dinner party people are repeating everything they heard, in public, with attribution - then that dinner party absolutely was not intimate It's still helpful if you're bringing together groups of people who don't know (and thus may surprise) each other to lay the ground rules. I'd be quite upset if I held a birthday party, which may go to 30 or 40 people, and learned that something (possibly quite inappropriate) that had been said was being tweeted or whatever.
  • tom_ 2y ago
    Right, but if these groups of people don't know one another - that's basically the definition of not intimate.
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > if these groups of people don't know one another - that's basically the definition of not intimate Different definitions of intimate [1]. Webster's gives an intimate club as an example. I'd also suggest an intimate dinner over which e.g. in-laws meet. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intimate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intimate
• ryukoposting 2y ago
  I agree with you. I've never lived in SV, and after interacting with a lot of folks in the bay, I'd prefer to never live there. It's seems like a weird Twilight Zone place where everyone is a business contact and nobody is just a friend. Even the concept of "intimacy" can be tacitly warped around that social framework.