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Who's having a good time? | Optimizing

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Many people I’ve talked to in their early 20s aren’t having a good time. Some are mid-leap from school to industry, or stuck in menial white-collar work. Others are in a strange limbo between undergrad and their graduate school ambitions. The next group is fine career-wise, but struggling with an ennui that pulls them towards David Graeber, Yuval Noah Harari, and inchoate dreams of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Of course, there are exceptions, though not enough. A friend and I pondered this observation. Peoples’ 20s are fraught with loneliness, career shifts, and general despair. If you’ll experience these things almost regardless of what you do, what decisions should you make differently? Everyone has heard stories of the miserable grad student or entry-level employee in a “passion” industry like entertainment or non-profits. We all agree they’re having a bad time.1 Yet, what’s unclear is how much worse a time they’re having compared to peers in a different position. If everyone is hed

Who's having a good time? | Textures Who's having a good time? 2023/01/24 Many people I've talked to in their early 20s aren't having a good time. Some are mid-leap from school to industry, or stuck in menial white-collar work. Others are in a strange limbo between undergrad and their graduate school ambitions. The next group is fine career-wise, but struggling with an ennui that pulls them towards David Graeber, Yuval Noah Harari, and inchoate dreams of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Of course, there are exceptions, though not enough. A friend and I pondered this observation. Peoples' 20s are f

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