I find other people tedious. Too much keeping up with the Joneses. Too many, what Taleb calls, "village-intrigues". The descriptions of intentional friend-maki

I find other people tedious. Too much keeping up with the Joneses. Too many, what Taleb calls, "village-intrigues". The descriptions of intentional friend-making in this article sound like hell to me. Give me some stand-up comedy, and an HN-sourced long-form article on some ancient discovery, and I'm good.