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DRMacIver's Notebook: Start from amazing

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I’m out of spoons for the piece about taste I was going to be writing today, so I’ll finish it off some other day. Instead, here’s a short piece to think about. You know that thing that happens, where you say you don’t like something, and someone tells you that you’ve probably just never tried a good example of it? It’s annoying, right? Sometimes it’s annoying in that way where someone tells you that you should exercise more, get more daylight, eat your greens. That sort of thing. You know it, and you know it’s true, but god it sounds like so much work. Sometimes it’s annoying because you have tried versions that everyone tells you are good, and they still haven’t worked for you. Maybe they were kinda fine, maybe they still had something you didn’t like, maybe something else. Either way, you’ve tried the examples that people have collectively decided are good, and you’ve concluded the whole thing just isn’t to you. First off, I should say, it’s completely OK to not like something. This

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