C. Thi Nguyen

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3,183 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Two Percent with Michael Easter · #25: Why Numbers, Scores, and Metrics Make Life Worse | Thi Nguyen · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

One of...

There's a sociologist who notes that a mantra throughout the pickup artist culture is you have to give up on happiness or enjoying them.

That'll just get in the way of making more numbers.

I see your cringe, right?

Unbelievable.

But you can see why.

Here's why.

Pleasure isn't accountable.

If I say I had more pleasure...

and you say you had more pleasure, there's no way for us to compare, right?

But we can compare who got to the sexual act faster.

Right.

Right?

Because that's a public measurable.

I mean...

I thought when I started reading about pickup artists that it would turn out that pickup artists were evil and manipulative, but at least were enjoying themselves.

But it's so much worse than that, right?

Yeah.

It's that...

So many seem to have burned out any sense of pleasure or joy or any of the reasons you might want in a relationship and created this hollowed out shell of just what's publicly accountable.

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