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Forbes 30 Under 30 is an awkward ego-fest - by Erik Hoel

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The view from being a "list-maker"

Walking the streets of New York City on your way to an upscale event is a mood. Such moments are the lifeblood of the city—its jazz, its psychogeographical resonance frequency. That sort of thing. On the subway you stand so your clothes don’t get dirty. Your clean dress shoes click satisfyingly over the grime of the sidewalk, fundamentally above it. Before I moved out of the city I went to one last event like that: the Forbes 30 Under 30 launch party in 2018. I had “made the list” as they say, and was heading to the brand-new Forbes on Fifth event space that the company had just opened. Of…

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