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Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones.
Conversations With Friends
Sally Rooney
Cindy also had a start-up. So did Dan. Cindy’s start-up was an online marketplace for B2B software. The idea was that instead of buying the software directly from the company that made it, firms could buy it via Cindy’s outfit instead, which would take a 12% cut. What Cindy provided was a search algorithm, although the sellers could pay to rank their products higher. Since they all paid, the rankings were exactly where they’d have been if they’d all decided not to.
Numb at Burning Man
Sam Kriss
Instead, it’s more promises about the perfect life that awaits if we attain our perfected body double. Our Bodies, Ourselves, the health bible my mother regularly consulted, has been supplanted with an all-pervasive ethos of “my body, my worth”—the corollary of which seems to be “your body, your problem.”
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