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I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

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They'll wreck this. It was a pretty stupid controversy. Josh Gotheimer, a congressman from New Jersey, he got caught photoshopping his 24 Spotify

Rapp list to include more Bruce Springsteen.

He had added in Thunder Road and Badlands and The Rising to his most listened songs of the year

and then posted it on social media. How did he think he was

going to get away with that? Well, as parents, we probably shouldn't judge. In fact, we should

empathize, as the apologetic and now even more embarrassed congressman explained after online

sluice noticed the telltale signs of editing, the problem was that

he shared a Spotify account with his teenage kids, and they had wrecked his algorithm.

Who amongst us has not had our YouTube and Netflix and Spotify accounts horribly skewed by our

kids' love of nerdcore or the frozen soundtrack? How will we ever

convince Google that we do not, in fact, like Mr. Beast or prank videos? Will our Netflix

suggestions ever recover from the cocoa melon we have watched? It is annoying to be sure,

but it is a small price to pay to help them discover their own interests.

It's a small price to pay for peace in the car instead of whining and complaining and

gratuitous insults about our taste. And someday, almost certainly, one of these songs will come on

and we will be hit with a wave of nostalgia, missing that 12-year-olds who like to belt out Taylor Swift,

desperately willing to trade anything for one more road trip

listening to the Pokemon theme on repeat.

So we might as well enjoy it while it's here

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