They say you need to live in a group house to make sense of the world.
With the sheer number of rabbit holes you can get into these days you can never be too paranoid about the information diet you’re giving to yourself. A group house, people say, gives you the most representative possible sample of the individuals in your (age, education, income) cohort. Informational rabbit holes are fundamentally a problem of unrepresentative sampling.
The natural next step toward ensuring representativeness is ensuring that literally EVERYONE lives in the same place. This is easier said than done as the person I’m stepping over right now is showing me.
The people outside the City call us dumb but my parents are adamant this is the right long term investment if I want to be anybody at all. After all, a group house is where you can catch the big winner ideas right at their source. In my family we did this thing where we trace the history and background of anyone we think we admire. All the guys I asked about turned out — surprise, surprise — to come from a place like this.