Year-End Wraps and Online Performativity

Why are we obsessed with year-end wrap-ups? And when does performance on social media go wrong? [17:26]

This week, special guests Steven Ebert and Nora Mestrich join Joey to talk about Spotify Wrapped, Dunbar's Number puns, rebirth, vague-booking, trauma, and Walden. They don't talk about how we never edit out things in post that we say we will.

• Book recommendation: Atomic Habits, by James Clear

• See your Spotify Wrapped here.

• Spotify Wrapped: the Fallout (from The Guardian)

• Metro on Sadfishing

• The "are you in the right headspace" meme and "Self-Care Templates"

• More book recommendations: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid, by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt.