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Notes to my younger self (and a Baz Luhrmann hit in the nineties)

In Uncategorized on February 25, 2021 at 12:16 am

Many of us have been considering of late big tech and social media giant Facebook… it’s many evils and misuses for bad deeds and the misinformation plague it helps to spread. The Social Dilemma was pretty confronting, even if it didn’t tell us stuff we didn’t already know on some level.

That is by way of disclaimer before I share something I once shared on FB, and cognisant of the fact I would not have been reminded of it were it not for FB’s ‘Memories’ feature.

On this day, 6 years ago, I shared some thoughts and reflections on Big Philosophical Life Questions for a friend’s project, framed as advice to my younger self.

It’s one of those rare examples of a post written by past me I’m comfortable sharing in it’s original state, unedited, unchanged.

In words made famous by Baz Luhrmann on The Sunscreen Song, “I will dispense this advice now”.

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