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date: 2025-09-30T23:28:53-06:00
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description: "There's a reason things become mainstream"
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lastmod: 2025-09-30T23:28:53-06:00
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showTableOfContents: true
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type: "tils"
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title: "TIL: People Are Actually Right"
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image: ""
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tags: ["philosophy", "life"]
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---
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# Context
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As a teenager I spent a lot of my energy trying to be different. I don't know what informed my rebellious streak, I just
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know that once artists got over a couple thousands active listeners on Spotify, I started to lose interest in them.
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I'm barely old enough to think straight, and it dawned on me in a conversation with my wife, and I told her, "you know,
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things are probably actually bigger in Texas".
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## Reflection
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I'm glad I still have a pretty strong rebel streak in me that propels me to be curious, to try the more esoteric things
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that others ignore. I'm a better developer for having learned other niche programming languages like
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- Zig
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- Clojure
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- Ocaml
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- Gleam
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- Nim
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(I know, surprisingly no rust, I feel like when it came on the scene it caught on too quickly...)
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But, I feel like I don't often give the public consensus opinion its fair shake.
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So here's to being a normie sometimes, its actually great to be like everyone else.
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