How to Unpack an Out Of Touch Listicle (and Get Something Out of it)
Or: The One Where I Prove I Can Make Anything About Tacos
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Someone asked me recently why people are so drawn to listicles.
You know the posts I mean. They have titles like: 3 Habits That Will Make You a Millionaire This Year or 10 Ways to 10X Your Productivity.
Even though they’re written by people who aren’t millionaires and probably aren’t any more productive (or at least not 10 times more productive) than anyone else, we eat them up with a spoon.
Seriously — do you even want to be ten times more productive? That’s a shitload of work, you guys. A shitload. It sounds exhausting to me.
I actually have a theory for why we’re drawn like moths to a flame to those posts, though. And, oddly, it proves that I can make anything about tacos.