Remember the feeling of driving home with a new movie from blockbuster? Warm box of pizza on your lap? That feeling alone was 9/10 better than watching the movie.

So fucking true… hoping we’ll get some of that back soon.

Great song

🔥🫡

🥲 might have a family movie night and buy a pizza and put it on my kids lap on the drive home just so they experience this.

Knew someone would catch it 🫡

I started mailing postal letters to corporations to bypass the inundated online job boards. Let's hope the gatekeepers in Human Resources are pleased with the nostalgia and I get interviews without the prerequisite of repeatedly telling my life story through their application workflow forms.

The post office still works. Of course, you have to know people's physical addresses and they get weird about that nowadays. So much paranoia around stalking and other mostly non-issues to overcome (somehow these things were manageable pre-21st century hysteria).

I had a fleeting moment last night where I REALLY wanted to say something to someone, so I was actually looking at flights simply because I wanted to hand-deliver a letter. 💁‍♂️ There are no grand gestures anymore. 😭 Humanity is cooked for the next 3 years. 🤙

I consider myself extremely lucky I met my wife before the instant messaging era began. I spent hours, sometimes days, crafting sms text messages. Adhering to the charachter limit, making sure every word mattered and conveyed what I wanted it to, and have some meaningful message to send, riding my bike to the store to top up my phone so I could send some more texts… Teens these days have no reason not to be online and connected all the time. I imagine the whole dynamic of texting with your crush (the way I experienced it) is completely gone. I have fond memories of those days. I pity my kids for not being able to experience this.

Good points. Chalk it up to feeling nostalgic and subconsciously channeling an Arcade Fire song (We Used to Wait). I’m bullish on meatspace forward. Humans need more connection.

Great idea! Followed. Look forward to hearing how this strategy plays out. I have been exposed to now the broken job search system…

I send handwritten letters to some of the people I know. It's mostly the ones who live too far away to visit regularly. It's fun!