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- jstx1 4y agoI don't know if there's a point to this but I can certainly relate.
- heresie-dabord 4y agoAt some events, casual conversation has a burdensome, perfomative element. Perhaps what has changed is the veneer. There is more meme-dropping in addition to garish status-boasting. The narrator mentions some interesting ideas but doesn't feel the need to impose himself. I laughed at the passing mention of spirituality without religion... It's hard to Do No Harm in the world that we have built. Narcissocial media has also made people ready to assert things that are -- to be frank -- none of my interest or business.
- brookst 4y agoThat”s a really interesting take. I see it, and I appreciate you sharing it, but it’s very different from what I got from the piece. I took it to be a bit of self-remonstration about lack of ambition or even interest in anything new.
- heresie-dabord 4y agoThat is subtle but present, I agree. I don't know about you, but when it seems that everyone else is meme-dropping and flaunting their exceptionalism (for which they are inevitably so croakingly thankful...), I chide myself momentarily for not being part of the scene. But then I recall that narcissocial media is an empty barrel rolling down a monetised slope. ^_^
- abruzzi 4y agomy read is it is skewering both the "performative over achiever" and the "ambition-less bored under achiever." Maybe its intended as a rorschach test to see which side people see.
- brookst 4y agoI like that. It’s funny to see the thread here where so many are like “yeah, eat that Panera, wallow in emptiness, that’ll show those narcissocialists!” It’s a more subtle piece than it appears. I think you’re spot on.
- fullshark 4y agoIt's about a life where you go to parties with people who aren't really friends but are upwardly mobile acquaintances and feel a pressure to one-up each other, or at least convey success to them. This is pretty much life as an unmarried yuppie, as you seek out a mate. It's fairly exhausting after a while.
- pelagicAustral 4y agoI think some people just have a really nice way to put things out there in the wild. Like for me is “yeah I was at the river and then I caught a fish, and then I chopped his head off” and someone else will tell you a beautiful story about wilderness, connecting with the environment and Solomonic measures. I just fucking killed a fish.
- vidanay 4y agoAnd ate it.
- stickfigure 4y agoI subscribe to that channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsBjQFW1G3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsBjQFW1G3s (AlmazanKitchen)
- DeWilde 4y agoFrom your perspective it might seem weird. From the perspective of people who kill fish often, your reaction to the act would be weird.
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- chank 4y agoI woke up today!
- jalanco 4y agoI woke up today, and why you should, too.
- chihuahua 4y agoRemember to be thankful!
- pelagicAustral 4y agoI’m glad you did.
- gorbachev 4y agoSlacker! I woke up and ate breakfast.
- Crosseye_Jack 4y agoYes, but did you do that BEFORE noon?
- DonHopkins 4y agoYour grammatically correct use of the word "woke" as a non-insult makes my day bright and gay!
- code_lettuce 4y ago10 ways how waking up today prepares you for tomorrow!
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- maurits 4y agoCorollary. The 30 most disappointing under 30 [1] [1] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-selection-of-the-30-most-disappointing-under-30 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-selection-of-...
- Victerius 4y ago> After a month at a Zen silent-meditation retreat, Heller went back to his job at Goldman Sachs as a commodities trader in oil and gas. That sounds pretty successful to me.
- pelagicAustral 4y ago“You’ve read your last free article.” So off putting. I feel like I’m now ready to face the jury.
- bombcar 4y agohttps://archive.ph/omjtX https://archive.ph/omjtX The robots can read forever. Us humans, we must get in line.
- mananaysiempre 4y agoBloomberg (I think?) is fair: their every archive.org snapshot is a “prove you’re not a robot” captcha wall.
- treebeard901 4y agoThis was great. Almost could have been The Onion. I wish articles like this would happen more often.
- carnivala 4y agoWe need more of this in the world. Less bragging, more humility.
- brookst 4y agoYes to less bragging. But do we need more Panera / Statham / complete lack of interest in growth?
- zug_zug 4y agoPerhaps this question is exemplifying the type of "competitive living" the article is mocking. Personally I don't think it matters if it's Statham or The Classics, what matters is you sincerely enjoy it rather than out of some sense of obligation. And I'd much rather listen to anybody talk about "The Transporter" than "Life of Pi", or Panera than rediscovering spirituality.
- beeboop 4y agoYes. We shouldn’t be defined by success. We have one life and should enjoy it as much as possible. You don’t take any of that growth with you to the grave.
- brookst 4y agoSo. . . might as well never move out of mom’s basement? Those who advocate for growth and learning don’t do so because of a belief that it will transcend the grave, but that it offers the potential for a more fulfilling life. Maybe that’s wrong, and mom’s basement is fine, but I don’t really believe that.
- rubyfan 4y agoI’m honestly not sure which side it’s satirizing. Both?
- eludwig 4y agoAbsolutely both! (There is no privileged position, as in, everyone is ridiculous, ha!) I love writing like this and laughed while reading. Nice way to start a "do nothing" Saturday. ;)
- yamrzou 4y agoLinkedIn be like.
- Waterluvian 4y agoMain quest: kids are 4 and 5 now and are thriving in school. Side quest: still have a job that I’m enjoying. Side projects: none.
- sgt101 4y agoSimilar: biggest issue... everyone in my life thinks I should find something else to do!
- LVB 4y agoI like how many folks these days list "Investor" or "Advisor" in their experience on LinkedIn, along with a list of where they've sprinkled their excess cash. Excellent humblebrag. I'm considering mentioning that I have shares in a Vanguard mutual fund.
- 50 4y agoOddly reminds me of Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
- warent 4y agoWow this is really nice! It also somehow feels enlightened too Is there a good book of her work you'd recommend, or just grab any that's as full as possible?
- 50 4y agoThe poem above is from my copy of The Essential Emily Dickinson: Poems, Selected and with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates (978-0-06-266887-5).
- Ghoyome 4y agoThis brought back amazing memories of 8th grade. Thank you for this :)
- gala8y 4y agoWhich reminds me of a nice, not that short, fable by Richard Bandler, Adventures of Anybody, which is a nice take on being Anybody, instead of being Nobody or Somebody. Highly recommended, hypnotic (which was Bandler's intention) read.
- wkjagt 4y agoThis is wonderful, but I feel kinda sad that it's filed under "humor".
- meindnoch 4y agohttps://archive.ph/0xElK https://archive.ph/0xElK
- te_chris 4y agoRefreshing to see something like this here. Genuinely.
- meindnoch 4y agoI fixed the roof of the garage at my mom’s place with my dad. Then ate two cheesburgers from McDrive and drove home.
- metacritic12 4y agoNPCs are humans too. And honestly, screw the term NPC, all of us have various degrees of standard and quirkiness. The latter is not automatically good.
- csense 4y agoYeah, you gotta think about the NPC's perspective! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G97xdpy6Am4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G97xdpy6Am4
- rakejake 4y agoI sometimes have to face phone calls like these where I know the person is very outgoing and has very "shareable" interests (interests that are simple, broadly applicable to everyone and in vogue - think hiking/climbing, frequenting breweries etc), and it feels weird having to say something like "Oh I didn't do much last weekend. Just some chores, practiced some music and read a few more chapters of <insert-well-known-but-not-popular-book>. Caught an amazing playoff game as well". To be fair, they are not judgemental and the question is asked in earnest, but there is this feeling of inadequacy that is stoked in me, despite knowing that I picked my own interests and am happy with them.
- sgt101 4y agoWell, most people would latch onto the "practiced some music" and want to know more! Just stay off the heroin and I think you'll be fine.
- rakejake 4y agoLol, unfortunately it is not that kind of music. It is Indian classical, not very conducive to free-flowing conversation unless the person on the other side is a 60 year old enthusiast.
- munificent 4y agoI am on both sides of this. Thanks to significant feelings of inadequacy and social anxiety, I have a tendency to seek out "shareable" (excellent term for this) hobbies and activities so that I do have "interesting" stuff to talk about. At the same time, I recognize that I'm doing this partially to fill a psychological void in myself. (Only partially because I am actually authentically deeply into these interests as well. I'm not a completely shallow person.) So when talking to people, I try to not overfit and focus on my more obvious conversation-worthy pursuits. But I also don't want to just be boring either and talk about nothing. When I think about my favorite conversations with other people, it's rarely about what they have been doing. Instead, it's people that do normal stuff, but have particularly keen or funny insights on it. So that's what I aim for: to talk about the everday minutiae of life, but hopefully in a way that's a little more perceptive, or unusual or something.
- adrianmonk 4y ago"Ordinarily, I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too." "Are you saying I'm interesting?" "All I'm saying is that, when I'm around you, I find myself showing off, which is the idiot's version of being interesting." (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102250/quotes/qt0307499 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102250/quotes/qt0307499)
- abruzzi 4y agothanks for reminding me of that movie! I haven't seen it a very long time. Its hard to explain, but its a kind of humor that I really don't see very often--serious and self-deprecating humor.
- throwaway30vv0 4y ago"Boring" crew, member #37, checking in.
- penguin_booze 4y agoFor a moment, I thought this would take me to a LinkedIn post, where I see people are "humbled", "blessed", "thrilled", and "honoured" on a regular basis.