20 Lessons from 2020

/ Tyler L.
  1. FaceID was a mistake.
  2. It’s easy to make a vaccine if you start with the answer key.
  3. There’s no outrage so powerful that it won’t turn into complacency over time.
  4. The media has no incentive to tell you the truth.
  5. Humans are not rational decision makers.
  6. There’s no problem so great that humans won’t solve it when it inconveniences them.
  7. The UX designer for the Nissan Armada’s radio/nav system should be fired immediately.
  8. The creator of the Armada’s aerial view parking/back-up cam should have a statue built in their honor.
  9. You didn’t actually want to attend most of your social obligations anyway.
  10. You don’t enjoy spending the whole day with your family as you thought you would.
  11. Work is somehow even more meaningless than you thought.
  12. Fashion, movies, and smiling in public were apparently unnecessary the whole time.
  13. Under extreme circumstances, the motivated thrive and the excuse-makers suffer more than usual.
  14. Being polite is more likely to get you what you want than being right.
  15. Humans are really bad at understanding other humans’ brains.
  16. Good thing it turns out we don’t need to.
  17. Experts should not be trusted.
  18. Our country won’t have a civil war because the citizens don’t want one.
  19. Disney simultaneously won and lost.
  20. Maybe broadcast TV wasn’t so bad.

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