Jake Kozloski
@jakozloski
Founder/CEO @KeeperAI. Love at first match.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Attraction gets you to the second date. Values get you to the second decade. Both matter.
Pew asked Americans what's essential to a fulfilling life:
Career: 71%
Friends: 61%
Kids: 26%
Marriage: 23%
Fifty years of data say that marriage is the biggest happiness differentiator ever measured. Americans have this backwards.
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The colonial New England version of a first date was called bundling. He rode too far to come back in the dark, so he stayed the night in the girl's bed, fully clothed. Her mother tied her into a sack up to her waist. Her father laid a plank down the center of the mattress. Her parents slept ten feet away. The couple would talk until sunrise, and if it went well, a proposal followed within days. Bundling lasted 160 years. Tinder turns 14 next month.
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Hot people think you're ugly.
Raters who score 7+ on their own photos give the lowest ratings in both directions. 22% lower among women, 28% lower among men.
Your grandparents met once at a church picnic and stayed married for 61 years. You have personally evaluated 11,000 people on your phone and eat dinner standing over a sink.
