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I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
It is an interesting demonstration of how younger people think these days. I guess you are at most 25?
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Is there a button that will post that summary so we can read it?
Err... there's a share button although the URL is super long, without shortening it looks very awkward to share elsewhere. If you open copilot's URL [1] you can just paste and URL without asking anything, and it will return a summary. -- 1: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
This summer, Colleen Hoover’s literary sensation takes a new form: a film adaptation of her novel “It Ends with Us”, starring Blake Lively, is set to hit theaters on August 9. The anticipation is high, but alongside devoted readers, there are also TikTok haters wondering what’s next for the prolific author.
In a recent event titled “Mani-fest 2024: Main Character Energy”, organized by the nail polish brand Olive and June, Hoover collaborated on a new collection inspired by her books. Attendees at the event could create vision boards, contribute to a “gratitude wall,” build bouquets, and receive free Olive and June products. However, most were there for one reason: to meet Hoover herself.
Despite her immense success, there’s a lingering question: Why did Colleen Hoover stop writing? The answer remains elusive, leaving fans curious about her future literary endeavors. Perhaps the film adaptation will reignite her creative spark, or maybe she’s exploring new paths beyond the written word. Either way, CoHorts eagerly await her next move.
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> If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push it? How would it change their expected happiness? I see the point, but you'd need to change that "many thousands" to more like "many tens/hundreds of millions" for it to be deterring (assuming these people…
A thousand people constantly mentioning online how they hate you would ruin most of your chances at establishing new relationships as well, people just have to make a single google search to see everyone hating you and that will put them off getting to know you deeper. You would be unable to get a job, unable to get investors, unable to find a nice girlfriend etc, you could find a gold digger though. Note that unlike…
I just typed "Colleen Hoover" (the writer in the article) and the worst I saw in my search results was someone saying she read all of her books and they suck. Sure, maybe the BookTok bubble hates her, but you have to be pretty deep into it. I also typed for comparison the names of several infamous developers, and the only one who would raise an eyebrow among non-tech people is the one who was convicted of murder.
> You would be unable to get a job, unable to get investors, unable to find a nice girlfriend
If I have $10M I don't need the first two, and being rich opens my dating pool to dating other equally-rich people in similar situations.
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
> If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push it? How would it change their expected happiness? Bring that button over here and let me press it 10 times. I know I haven't hurt anyone physically (i.e. don't give me 10m but 100 people get cancer - I don…
I gotta say... I would have quit writing the moment I became successful enough to be required to sit at book signings. I can't imagine sitting there all day long, bored out of my skull, faking like I care about these people. I got out of recruiting because of how utterly disingenuous the career is and how boring the work was, and the non-creative parts of being an author have zero appeal to me.
Perhaps some authors don't have to fake it.
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
Absolutely, 100%. If you modified this to be people face to face or people I already know and love, definitely not.
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Err... there's a share button although the URL is super long, without shortening it looks very awkward to share elsewhere. If you open copilot's URL [1] you can just paste and URL without asking anything, and it will return a summary. -- 1: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
I meant that someone asked for a summary, and you said that you like Edge because it will give you good summaries, but you didn't post the actual thing the OP had asked for :P
am i alone as a pretty literate person (my kindle is my constant companion) in having never heard of her? i don't mean to badmouth her - no doubt it is me missing out.
Maybe you don't read the right magazines, get profiled as being a woman by ad networks, things like that. Could also be that your social circles don't read romances for some reason or other.
It's an underrated genre though, some romance novels are a lot of fun.
For a long time women writing novels about being a woman (in the Occident) have been perceived as dangerous, revolutionary, socially corrosive. Once the feminist movements got representation in politics it has mutated more into a general disregard, it's not real literature, it's not sophisticated, it's not worthy a distinguished white male's attention, things like that. But the publishers know that there is a huge amount of money to be made so they catch some of these writers and make them successes through 'side channels'.
Something similar goes for e.g. Clive Barker. Prolific, very good writer, but few know more than the first Hellraiser movie and perhaps the remake. I think one important reason for this is that he clearly writes from a gay perspective and sometimes shows a rather open interest for BDSM and other things that flip gender hierarchies.