The META Trending Trends: 2024

Be willing to have your most fundamental beliefs challenged.

Better , be eager and question them yourself. For YouTuber Ordinary Things, “The real danger of modern times isn’t that we’ll fail to tell the fake world from the real one, but it’s that we’ll know the world is fake and choose to live in that one anyway because it’s comfortable.” How iron... See more

AI augmentation is a future requirement, but remain mindful of what’s outsourced. Going forward, we need more demanding journeys than we do mindless shortcuts. Shortcuts rarely yield fun, stories or lessons. If it's easy, it likely isn’t worthwhile.

1. Residual (ubiquitous, but fading)

2. Dominant (accepted, now expanding)

3. Emergent (rising experimentation)

4. Disruptive (agitating expected norms)

• Outside = What is an outsider’s POV or experience?


• Other Side = What is the inverse or contradictory tension?


• Dark Side = What is the malicious or distressing angle?


• Back Side = What is the devious or stigmatized twist?


• Quiet Side = What is not being talked about?


• Long Side = What are the long-term implications or effects?


• Inside = What is the internal o

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