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Noticing how increasing number of people have world views that are effectively evolving Yelp reviews of reality Can’t tell yet if it’s a good or bad life sort of world view
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What if you lived life like you were going to write a Yelp review of the universe in the afterlife, and you’d get hell, heaven, or rebirth based on it 🤔
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I do think it’s a peculiar artifact of our times. When sustaining life is increasingly a SaaS service configuration type problem and you spend more and more time navigating customer service escalations, all reflections are likely to be “review” type thoughts
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Almost the entire human environment exists to serve you in some way, and any unhappiness you experience is someone’s job to address, even if they generally do it poorly. You have to really go out of your way to experience realities where your unhappiness is nobody’s job.
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Even fairly abstract things. Like say you buy into startup hustle culture and try and fail at startups. Obviously it is Paul Graham’s fault for providing a less than 5 stars playbook and service. Write a review! Meh lunar eclipse? Yelp review the astronomy-event hypebeasts.
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I’m genuinely wondering now… is there *any* life experience you can’t process into a Yelp review of a person or institution that packages and serves it up under expectations set by terms of service that they might fail to meet
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On the flip side can you live an unreviewable life? I think so. I suspect I come close personally 😎 Trick is make no promises, and present in a uniquely mediocre way to set wysiwyg expectations. Sarah’s thread here gets at it obliquely but makes it sound very hard.
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5.) Taking on certain types of demeanor (like "dignified" or "confident") can also be tagged in your mind as a promise to never do the things you view as inconsistent with that demeanor.
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Venkat was my grumpy insightful neighbor, we lived next door for many decades though some times, mostly kept to ourselves - but when we did interact his takes and vibe pretty much always made my life richer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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