C. Thi Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And the guy said, well, how am I supposed to know what I like?
And I thought, what do you do?
What is the activity even here if you're consuming a wine, unable to tell if you like it, being guided only by, I mean, it makes total sense to use an external score as maybe a starting point for what to buy to find something that you might like.
It's a balance.
But I think what had happened to him is something that's happened to a lot of people in a galactic scale, exactly what you're talking about,
He had been so attentive to external signals that he had lost any ability to hear anything.
I mean, I don't think it's even that quiet a voice.
The voice of pleasure had gotten swamped in his brain.
And I think this is exactly what happens.
So the philosopher Elijah Milgram, who is a major inspiration to me, one of his ideas is that there's no single correct value to have or goal to have for your life.
Instead, you're trying to find an expression of a value or a goal that fits your personality and your context in the place you're in.
And the way you do that is you try on values and you see if they work for you.
And the signal that they're working for you is you're happy, you're engaged, you're flourishing.
And the signal that they're not working for you is that you're miserable, you're bored.
And I think what's happened to many of us is instead of modifying how we think of the target in the light of this quiet inner voice.
we're ignoring the inner voice in favor of the loud metric.
And by the way, we have a story about why that's so easy to do.
It's because metrics are built to be easily comprehensible.
That's Porter's story.
They've been built for everyone to understand instantly and for everyone to be able to communicate to other people instantly.
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