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how to cultivate your own taste…and how to protect your inner life while posting online (opens the original)
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I’ve been reading very little this week and reconciling with nature instead—swimming, cycling, and applying large quantities of sunscreen—but I’m here to share 3 announcements and 5 recent favorites:Everyone wrote about taste this year, including meFirst—my essay on taste, Silicon Valley, and AI is now out! You can read “Why We Like Things” online or in print, as part of Asterisk’s Work issue (along with work from the social scientist , economics writer <span
the life you were meant to live (opens the original)
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For the educated and ambitious, the two most obvious templates for how to live are:Become a high-achieving professional—especially in law or finance (in the ‘90s) or tech (now), where you affiliate yourself with one prestigious organization after another, and use your disposable income to acquire strategic lifestyle experiences: a two-week trip to Japan, an Equinox membership, and Le Creuset cookware that never gets used (because you’re always getting sweetgreen near the office)…And sometimes yo
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