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I wrote this maybe a year ago, meaning to write more, but in the mean time why not just put it up:

What is the meaning of engaging in life path behavior gravity sinks that are so completely already explored in their action and outcome that you could just google for the results of other people’s experience and skip the whole endeavor.  To wit: photos of tourist sites, harajuku girls (unless they are actually truly NEW styles, which is rare)…
Related: that dread feeling of “why record this experience or blog it or diarize it when it *should* have been done by others already”?  Sometimes the already might just be “well, I’m sure someone is going to see that and do it within the next near term, so why bother?”  In business, the answer is, to be the one who makes the money for doing it!  But in choosing how to spend our personal time, really, what is the point?  Whuffie?  Would it in any measurable way actually even boost my woofie to have blogged the “Love Jam” billboard in Shibuya the week or so before whoever finally put it on BoingBoing?