“A good recommendation I recently received: One of the best things to happen to me in recent memory is making friends who are significantly older than I am. In 2022, my partner and I met some people on a bike trip who are in their 60s (I’m 35), and they’re constantly helping me learn how to live. One of these friends used to work in the wine industry and shared a great nugget of wisdom. He said that restaurants tend to mark up the wines in the middle tier of a wine list, in part because people are afraid of looking cheap, so they go for the middle and end up paying too much. If you want a great bottle of wine, he said, you need to splurge. But if you’re not a snob, the cheapest thing is often as good as, if not better than, the stuff that’s medium-priced. I love these kinds of tips, because they make me feel way smarter than I am“
Reading the beginning of this paragraph, I thought this was going to be a much…darker suggestion
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