"our modern obsession with personal brading and self-commodification wants us to flatten ourselves into something someone else can understand in five seconds, but that's just not how people are, and it seems cruel to deem anyone so simple, least of all ourselves"

— Unknown Source

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I want to recommend this substack by @valerie on a similar topic https://clubreticent.substack.com/p/how-to-be-perceived

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