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how to be perceived - by Valerie - club reticent

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My favorite thing to look at is people's bios on social media. From self-proclaimed boutique wellness studio founders on the West Coast to Parisian creative directors and NYC-based models, it’s an infinite buffet of captivating and obscure circles to study and feel excluded from. We’re all producers of our incessantly self-referential and aspirational nature, and we’re obsessed with giving ourselves reputable titles. Others, of course, better take us seriously: it’s never play-pretend, no matter how ridiculous it looks from the outside. I mean, have you also seen an occupation so niche you couldn’t help but question its credibility? Mom, can you come pick me up, somebody just introduced themselves to me as a tastemaker & curator… Anyway. Just how much of one’s identity can theoretically be compressed into a few lines and tags for a high-level broadcast of self to strangers? And if I choose to, let’s say, go by writer, do I define my narrative or does my narrative define me? Who’s the h

My favorite thing to look at is people's bios on social media. From self-proclaimed boutique wellness studio founders on the West Coast to Parisian creative directors and NYC-based models, it’s an infinite buffet of captivating and obscure circles to study and feel excluded from. We’re all producers of our incessantly self-referential and aspirational nature, and we’re obsessed with giving ourselves reputable titles. Others, of course, better take us seriously: it’s never play-pretend, no matter how ridiculous it looks from the outside. I mean, have you also seen an occupation so niche you…

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