It was entirely possible to go all four days of XOXO without seeing a friend you knew was there, unless you actively sought them out.

This changes how impact is calculated, and how you should think about opportunity cost. If you aren’t considering pace, you will be misled into thinking that time isn’t relative, which is an expensive miscalculation (sort of like in Interstellar, when they get stuck on the water planet and 1 hour = 7 years). ​ What used to take days, now took months. What used to take a conversation, now took six meetings. I had no choice but to quit, as every additional day was actually costing me months (relative to working on the outside).