Lots of IRL friends quitting caffeine and alcohol. Doing cold plunges. Creating checklists for everything. Planning hour by hour. Optimizing.
Feels like they’re just getting the illusion of control. We need some randomness and spontaneity and it’s not something you can schedule.
@PaulSkallas saw this movie in turkey. there was a scene where a character dies and the person they had an affair w/ breaks down crying - the whole theater erupted in laughter. i always wondered if something was lost in translation with the subtitles or if the turks knew something i didn't