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KB's avatar

wake up babe, new peter zhang substack article just dropped

Jeffrey Tong's avatar

^^ beautiful writing as always, i love how he deploys poetic analogies and backs every claim with sources

Osher  Lerner's avatar

Despite wanting to laugh off MBTI as a social model, I think I really internalized the natural introvertedness idea. Good to have a bit of a wake up call!

Atharv Sonawane's avatar

great piece peter

Peter Zhang's avatar

Thanks Atharv, hope you been well

bert's avatar

ACtuALLy, it's Raleigh's, not Rayleigh's. Your EECS 127 education is really showing here

Peter Zhang's avatar

Many a memory I’ve misremembered due to their margs

Osher  Lerner's avatar

Despite wanting to laugh off MBTI as a social model, I think I really internalized the natural introvertedness idea. Good to have a bit of a wake up call!

Aaron Mei's avatar

Hm, after returning from studying abroad, I was very much thinking the opposite. I had spent a lot of time travelling with friends (whom I like very much!), and although it was fun, I was constantly wishing for time to be alone.

Though, I do agree that my favorite moments were with other people... Thanks for the post, definitely has things to think about.

Peter Zhang's avatar

Gods work, Aaron. I felt motivated to write this originally because I too started to feel burnt out just by seeing people all the time and wanting some time to turn off. I don't think 0% alone time is the right number, so your case is probably an exception. But I do think that in general, it's normal to have some instinctual resistance to seeing people, just like you might stall in going to the gym. Maybe one of those short-term-long-term happiness tradeoffs you have to make.