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11th February 2026
Small talk, Bad Bunny, and Netflix recommendations…
Small talk is tedious and unavoidable. Even with my best efforts to evade it, I find myself initiating it sometimes because… well, because “social etiquette”.
Silence is good for me, but I can’t not fill silence when it comes to my work. My personality is what keeps clients coming back. Paradoxically, I’m an anti-social people person.
Staying in the loop for functional reasons
I’m always the person who hasn’t watched the show everyone is watching, heard the song everyone is listening to, or been to the place everyone is going to.
It’s not about being different. Keeping up with the world feels like a major task. It wasn’t always this way. With age, my desire to stay in the loop began to fade.
Moments like today are when I think to myself, knowing about “the thing” or having watched “the thing” would really assist my small talk right now.
Everyone is talking about Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl. I’ve heard about some of the tensions around it and heard great things about the performance.
It sounds like I would really enjoy it, and perhaps one day I will watch it… but honestly, I probably won’t.
