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The Trouble With Optionality



Young people today are trained to pursue optionality as an end in itself, which leads to a fear of commitment and a generation of wandering souls.
I can't recommend this essay enough.
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americans treat optionality like a virtue when it’s actually a pathology. ppl optimize for keeping doors open indefinitely, never committing, never locking in, because they conflate flexibility with freedom. but optionality is not freedom, it’s just deferred responsibility.
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