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Leisure & Play
(n.)
Meticulously curating your hobbies, style, and interests to maximize them as expressions of your identity.
Two years of tastemaxxing his vinyl collection ended at a house party, when he met a stranger who had exactly the same records.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Taste + -maxxing, the optimization suffix that has already expanded from gamers’ min-maxing a character to looksmaxxing, sleepmaxxing, and tokenmaxxing. As taste itself becomes one of the enduring qualities that separates humans from machines, the challenge will be to maintain yours as a reflection of your unique personality.
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