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Isn’t the author’s point that the hobbies he picks are also filled with people from the same profession?

He could pick a hobby he doesn’t enjoy, but that would defeat the point of a hobby...

I'm wondering how much of it is a form of filtering based on a social bias. There are a lot of hobbies in the world (that the author would potentially enjoy), but the ones that first come to mind are ones that have an examples nearby (e.g. my teammate Dan mentioned he went rock climbing on Sunday)

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