Delete the NPCs in Your Life to Win

Mookie flies solo with a rant sparked by getting blocked by a friend of seventeen years and turning around to block someone else right back. He builds out a full philosophy of blocking, treating it as a clean, dignified way to end something that would otherwise just fade out, more like jettisoning a spent rocket stage than picking a fight. He digs into why people get pickier about their circle as they age, what a block communicates that ghosting or a slow fade never quite says, and why he thi...