Max Hawkins’ Random Life

Max Hawkins spent two years trying to randomize his life. He is a computer programmer who noticed he was spending his time in the same places doing the same things. In response to this he decided to write a program that would pick a random bar in San Francisco and call him an Uber there. He didn’t know where he was going till he got out of the Uber. After doing this for a while he realized it was a lot of fun. He continued to randomize different parts of his life until he was only living in a city for 2 or 3 months at a time, eating and drinking at random places, and going to random events on the nights and weekends. He said this experience was freeing, I don’t think I would enjoy it at all. I am very much a creature of habit and I think having to give that up totally would take a lot of will power on my part. Additionally the idea of a computer controlling everything I do already terrifies me and building a system that would literally make day to day decisions for me feels like a dystopian nightmare. While the code is probably pretty impressive I don’t think I want to come anywhere near Max Hawkins’ life.