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The Terror of Keeping Your Options Open
You keep the app you haven’t opened in six months. You date someone for three years but refuse to sign a joint lease because tying the paperwork to the romance feels like a trap. You research five different career pivots and execute none of them.
The baseline anxiety of the modern professional is the terror of the closed door. We have engineered a culture where keeping your options open is the highest moral good, and actually choosing a definitive path is viewed as a failure of imagination.
The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman noticed a fundamental shift in the state of society. We used to live in…
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