{"id":30741,"date":"2015-03-23T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30741"},"modified":"2015-03-22T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T14:20:30","slug":"youre-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/youre-doing-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"“You’re doing it wrong!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Lileks<\/a> on the omnipresent stories headlined like this: “Respiration: you’re doing it wrong”.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing that makes me want to go all Cagney and push a grapefruit in the Internet\u2019s face, it\u2019s the phrase \u201cYou\u2019re Doing It Wrong.\u201d It\u2019s been a popular clich\u00e9 with tiresome, bossy millennials for a few years, and every week brings more news of things you have performed incorrectly. These are never important things. One doesn\u2019t read YOU\u2019RE UNBLOCKING THAT CLOGGED ARTERY WRONG. It\u2019s always \u201cPutting cans in the fridge: YOU\u2019RE DOING IT WRONG,\u201d written in the tone of someone standing behind you with corn-chip dust on his shirt and beard, smirking because you totally don\u2019t know that putting the cans upside down recirculates the carbonation. Moron. <\/p>\n

The other way to write the headline is helpful: Here\u2019s a smart new way to do something you do all the time. (Such things are called \u201clife hacks\u201d by people who were not slapped enough by their editors in front of everyone.) But it\u2019s not enough to find a new way; the old way has to be WRONG, and YOU are WRONG for DOING IT. This leads the author\u2019s peers to find something else that everyone is doing wrong, and crow about it on some website that summons buzz and infuses the most banal innovation with virulence. How\u2019s that piece about how everyone\u2019s buttering their toast wrong doing? Forty-six thousand shares! Toast-buttering will never be the same! <\/p>\n

This is why many adults read the stories of overeducated millennials stooped with college debt working crap jobs and writing piecework blather for fizzy websites, and are not overly burdened by pity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Lileks on the omnipresent stories headlined like this: “Respiration: you’re doing it wrong”. If there\u2019s one thing that makes me want to go all Cagney and push a grapefruit in the Internet\u2019s face, it\u2019s the phrase \u201cYou\u2019re Doing It Wrong.\u201d It\u2019s been a popular clich\u00e9 with tiresome, bossy millennials for a few years, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,13],"tags":[262,956],"class_list":["post-30741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-millennials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7ZP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30742,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30741\/revisions\/30742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}