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🔟"Staying Classy" by @slatestarcodex "65% of people are in the labor class. They work jobs where labor is seen as a commodity, ie there’s not as much sense of career capital or reputation. They base virtue and success around Hard Work." ➡️slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/sta…

9️⃣"A Call to Rebellion" by @jonathancarson_ at @thenow_co It’s not hard to understand why the tiger seems withdrawn. The solution to the tiger’s suffering seems obvious, too. You don’t immediately think, “This tiger needs to go to therapy." ➡️thenow.co/call-to-rebell…

8️⃣ "Car Problems" "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?" ➡️cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/ca…

7️⃣ "On Short Bursts Of Impossible Stress And Depression Caused By Nothing" by @ResidentContra1 "Eventually, you get to a condition I’ve seen several people fired for, which HR usually terms something like 'work avoidance'." ➡️residentcontrarian.com/p/on-short-bur…

6️⃣"No Good Alone" by @raynefq "The narrative insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off & retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of therapy." 🦋 ➡️internetprincess.substack.com/p/no-good-alone

5️⃣ "Why Aren't Smart People Happier?" by @a_m_mastroianni "We sometimes condescendingly refer to this kind of wisdom as “folksy”, as if living a good, full life is just some cutesy thing that little old ladies do." 👵💙 ➡️experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-sm…

3️⃣ "How To Be Consistent" by @oznova_ "If you ask highly productive people what helped them establish a consistent routine, they will typically tell you 64 different tactical details, like they used a tomato-shaped timer."🍅 ➡️csprimer.com/articles/consi…

4️⃣ "Making Normal Conversations Better" by @sashachapin "Many conversations can be nudged in the direction of openness, spontaneous complexity, and shared emotionality." 🗨️ ➡️sashachapin.substack.com/p/making-norma…