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In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting

Schmidt to Eno

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When Eno talks about making albums, or images, or installations, he talks about them as places for audiences to exist. In any physical place, you're presented with a certain set of choices. You can't always tell the deliberately designed elements from the "natural" ones, and having a rich experience demands that you actively use your own awareness. This, so Eno explains, guides how he builds "places" — imaginary landscapes, if you will — for listeners, gallerygoers, recording artists, or himself, trying to open up "the spaces between categories" and "make use of the watcher's brain as part of the process.

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/brian_eno_on_creating_music_and_art_as_imaginary_landscapes_1989.html

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“Un atto intrinsecamente e gravemente disordinato” “An intrinsically and drastically messy act”

These words are used to define masturbation. I found them on the Vatican website. I think they are extremely beautiful. I see beauty connected with disorder as surrender to a total loss of control. In fact, sometimes I consider pleasure as an escape from the rules, as something enjoyable inasmuch is placed outside the rationality. However, since the term “disordered” seems to imply its own counterpart, I think the word “messy” could work better to express the total lack of any reference point. When I use the word “messy” I imagine a room full of Goth posters on the walls, some clothes on the floor, surely some socks composing abstract sculptures, and a big untidy bed.

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Niksen

“Niksen” is a stress-reducing practice from the Netherlands that allows people to do absolutely nothing.

It offers an antidote to always-on and achievement-oriented culture, attracting overwhelmed consumers who wish to break free of the cult of productivity and reclaim their time for relaxation.

As the ability to disconnect increasingly becomes a status symbol, the idea of doing something without purpose will continue to gain traction in the age of burnout

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The rise of orthorexia, an obsession with healthy food or 'clean eating', can be linked to the rise of self-care messaging on social platforms.69% everyday users have posted about their food

WGSN 

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For now, wellness remains a key status symbol for the Millennial generation, with the sector valued at $4.2trn. The quest for wholesome self-improvement by consumers will continue to propel the wellness market forward, as Millennials search for the right beauty supplements, tech-enabled sleep gadgets, and clean products.

WGSN - Millennial Extremes: Paradoxical Behaviours

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The Millennials are suffering from 'superhuman syndrome', the act of trying to achieve financial success, career growth and a work-life balance all at once. They want to have it all, and despite knowing it's impossible, they're not deterred from trying.

WGSN - Millennial Extremes: Paradoxical Behaviours

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Looking ahead to 2022, expect Millennials to emerge as Settlers, a group countering hustle culture and building a separation between work and life. They are likely to turn to new life concepts such as 'niksen', where time-wasting and idleness will be embraced.

WGSN - Millennial Extremes: Paradoxical Behaviours

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I had a system that brought me to an excess of choice, but still I failed at engineering love

https://medium.com/the-mission/looking-for-the-one-how-i-went-on-150-dates-in-4-months-bf43a095516c

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Dating at scale to find the One

Go on as many dates as possible.

I had to qualify each lead — see with which girl there was a fit and with which there wasn’t, to maximize chances of finding the One.

I automated everything. Openers, follow-up messages, swiping, bookmarking, text messages and phone number recording. The machine was well-oiled.

I assumed canned messages wouldn’t work well, but after over 10,000 sent, there wasn’t a significant response rate difference between personalized and generic messages. At least, that’s what the data said.

I became an online dating magician who knew how to optimize a profile — A/B testing pictures and message. If I changed my profile picture and got more “likes” as a result, that meant it was better. I was tracking data, which made it easy to see what performed best.

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My first problem was solved: getting leads into the pipeline. I had a new problem now: volume.

So I decided to industrialize the process.

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So I downloaded Tinder and started swiping.

I decided to hack the system and go for volume instead of personalization. To hell with romance. I was determined to find the One, even if it meant swiping right the whole Bay Area.

For any serious endeavor, you need a serious process. I wanted to find the perfect match, so I wasn’t going to be an amateur about it. I needed to come up with a rigorous and scientific process. Luck exists, but it can also be forced.

You need a certain amount of candidates to be able to benchmark what quality means, and humans are really difficult to assess. In computer science, this is known as the optimal stopping algorithm, aka the secretary problem.

A few lines of code later, my app was born. An abstraction layer capable of managing online dating for me:

Automatic swiping

Automatic messaging

Automatic date scheduling

Sweet. Here’s what happened when I launched the program: