My ahead-of-curve scorecard, measured in terms of how much earlier than mainstream I’d heard of various things
NRx: 3 years
Incels: 3 years
Crypto: 3 years
Twitter: 5 years
Turmeric in milk: 40 years
Things I was late to: fidget spinners, touchscreens, MP3s, avocados, stocks
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This honestly gives me hope that trend discovery is not inversely correlated with age.
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It is, but not the way you might think. You lose interest more than you lose the ability to keep up.
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I love this list. Avocados?
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Only started eating them regularly at age 40. Now I eat 0.5 🥑every day.
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Dude, turmeric in milk, rally? you want to flaunt that :D
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Oh god. I moved half way across the world to get away from the turmeric-in-milk thingy. It’s hit main stream? Does Elon want some kind of dispensables style crew?
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You should call it your "hipster scorecard", since you knew about it before it was cool.
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