Laws of the universe
Feb. 25th, 2019 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal#1: Let c be a constant slightly less than 1, such that an (introverted) person gets in c/2 of the conversation in a conversation of 2 people. If the group grows to size n, that person will get less than c/n of the conversation in the larger group.
#2: As the number of people at dinner goes towards infinity, so does the total time needed to find seating, socialize, and do the entire process.
These two together explain why I was fairly drained after the weekend and was in introvert mode yesterday. (I was going to post this then, but not only were my migraines screwing around, my computer failed to recognize wifi for some reason. Luckily it was just a driver issue and it got fixed quickly. Say what you will for the ethics of the software company, every interaction I've had with their store workers has been unfailingly positive and usually helpful.)
#2: As the number of people at dinner goes towards infinity, so does the total time needed to find seating, socialize, and do the entire process.
These two together explain why I was fairly drained after the weekend and was in introvert mode yesterday. (I was going to post this then, but not only were my migraines screwing around, my computer failed to recognize wifi for some reason. Luckily it was just a driver issue and it got fixed quickly. Say what you will for the ethics of the software company, every interaction I've had with their store workers has been unfailingly positive and usually helpful.)
