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This is a really weird premise for a site, but after a couple videos, all I could think was, this is an awesome glimpse at humanity.

>>gamerD+(OP)
I wasn't going to click the link but your comment prompted me to.

Wow. It's a fascinating look at what likely makes up a large majority of YouTube content that I would otherwise never come into contact with.

I also love how the creator packaged it up as a though an alien visitor was using YouTube to sample our civilization. This is the 99%.

>>gamerD+(OP)
And it makes me wonder about using similar approaches to break down the echo chambers we find ourselves in. We have a perception of what's normal based on what we see, but what we see is based on what we're already exposed to and what we ourselves do. Randomly seeing what a bunch of other people did this week? Great for that.

I also saw someone rave about "Donut" this week - schedules random 1-on-1's with people in your company to help with cross-pollination and bigger picture context. Chat Roulette and what a dumpster fire that is comes to mind, but I wonder if a LinkedIn-based service of a similar nature would be good just to learn about other companies, other corporate cultures, etc..

>>TallGu+P9
Your comment reminded me of interviewing.io and their strapline "chat roulette without the dicks" Similar idea but for engineering interviews and practice interviews

>>TallGu+P9
I work at a dumpster fire of a company, but Donut Buddies still shines through with benefits to me. I don't even think others are aware of its true value. I often will make cross-functional inferences about company level things, or will bring up strategy from a different part of the company in discussions, and I have other engineers kind of just stare at me and say ".... how do you know that?"

"from, get this, talking to my colleagues on a regular basis"