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Comment author: David_Gerard 10 March 2011 04:15:23PM *  4 points [-]

One of the problems is that in the Internet era, everything would love your attention, so it may actually be of value to treat unexpected curiosity as a warning signal. I find ruthless culling to be necessary, but I have 44 years of being me as a filter dataset; it's not clear to me what advice I'd give someone without reasonable experience being themselves.

Edit: As noted above, I think I'll try increased curiosity for a week and see what happens.