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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Jul 2019
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    What in your opinion is the most interesting first-world problem? Concrete candidates with possibility of technological solution only. Ie “my avocado is always unripe or overripe when I cut it open” rather than “spiritual hunger and lack of meaning”

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 12 Jul 2019
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        being loved by too many people solvable by better personal CRM

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Jul 2019
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        This feels orthogonal. First spiritual world rather than first material world. People don’t need to live in developed world to have this problem.

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      2. Pamela J. Hobart‏ @amelapay 12 Jul 2019
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        I spend way too much time dealing with possessions psychologically. e.g. guilt over throwing things away, reading reviews, buyer's remorse, second-guessing, trying to decide whether to satisfice or maximize. it's clearly product of old, useless psychological baggage.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Jul 2019
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        Us too 😆 Particularly severe in wake of move

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      2. Publius‏ @publius__2 12 Jul 2019
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        Buying a bunch of bananas and they all get ripe at the same time. I cant eat 6 bananas in one day. I don’t want to toss out soggy bananas if I don’t. Short of crazy bioengineering, all I can think of is a storage solution.

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      3. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 12 Jul 2019
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        Ahh, that's because you're buying prefab bunches at the grocery store. The solution is to tear off 2 from one green bunch, 2 from lime-colored bunch, 2 from one yellow bunch, & 1 from a totally ripe bunch, and then you've got a week of bananas. (obviously not always an option)

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 12 Jul 2019
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        How to expedite the process of resolving problems from one’s own childhood so that it consumes fewer decades of time and instigates fewer problems within other people’s childhoods.

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      3. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 12 Jul 2019
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        (Realize that’s a pretty broad/existential question, but I guess the relevance of it could depend on whether or not various psychological methods count as incomplete attempts at a technical solution or not.)

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      1. Jesse Miksic‏ @miksimum 12 Jul 2019
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        Weirdly hard to dispose of things! The primary barriers are bureaucratic (city won’t take my old carpet, trash company won’t take organic waste, etc) and shame/guilt (feel terrible throwing out so many of my kid’s old toys and clothes, but who wants to take them?!?)

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      2. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 12 Jul 2019
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        definitely security/avoiding being the victim of violence - limits what would otherwise be extreme freedom

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