I’m thrilled to announce that nothing is going on with me

Is there a good book of her work you'd recommend, or just grab any that's as full as possible?

At the same time, I recognize that I'm doing this partially to fill a psychological void in myself. (Only partially because I am actually authentically deeply into these interests as well. I'm not a completely shallow person.) So when talking to people, I try to not overfit and focus on my more obvious conversation-worthy pursuits.

But I also don't want to just be boring either and talk about nothing. When I think about my favorite conversations with other people, it's rarely about what they have been doing. Instead, it's people that do normal stuff, but have particularly keen or funny insights on it. So that's what I aim for: to talk about the everday minutiae of life, but hopefully in a way that's a little more perceptive, or unusual or something.

I think often of our modes of consumption and creation. I've experienced enough of those shareable interests to know that those are pleasant in moderation - human beings as social creatures and such - but that I find them to be primarily consumptive in nature. Creation takes a lot of time - often alone, occasionally frustrating - but the delayed reward is (usually) worth it.

That sounds pretty successful to me.

So off putting. I feel like I’m now ready to face the jury.

Perhaps what has changed is the veneer. There is more meme-dropping in addition to garish status-boasting. The narrator mentions some interesting ideas but doesn't feel the need to impose himself. I laughed at the passing mention of spirituality without religion... It's hard to Do No Harm in the world that we have built.

Narcissocial media has also made people ready to assert things that are -- to be frank -- none of my interest or business.

It's fairly exhausting after a while.

I love writing like this and laughed while reading. Nice way to start a "do nothing" Saturday. ;)