the uncool cool curve you're not allowed to talk about being ahead of if you want to stay cool (cool is overrated)

Went down this rabbit hole during lunch: The Guardian: Our lives and identities have moved online - and it's driving us insane Eugene Healey: Post-luxury status symbol #1: connected privacy The New Yorker: it's cool to have no followers now I have long said my hidden superpower is my ability to predict trends. I started noticing this superpower in fourth grade, when I got mocked for my extremely "uncool" outfits. The same outfits everyone was wearing by the middle of fifth grade. That pattern has repeated like clockwork ever since: I find some fashion thing I like, and a year and a half later, it is absolutely everywhere. I missed my calling. I should have moved to New York. It's not just fashion, either. It's also things like this "it's cool not to have followers now" trend. I ditched the last of my social media accounts...about a year and a half ago. Even this blog is fairly anonymous; there's only one person in my real life who even knows it's mine. It's hosted on smol.pub but it's…