problems / the apps
2. Choose Your Photos
Six slots. You have 3,000 photos and somehow none of them work. Curate a set that tells a story instead of submitting evidence. The sunglasses stay home.
inputthe photo candidates: fourteen mirror selfies, one group shot (which one are you?), one fish (why), one blurry concert, and one genuinely great photo from 2019.22:04
wrong answerSix selfies from the same angle (one photo, six times), all group shots (a puzzle, not a profile), or leading with the 2019 photo and planning to apologize later.✗ not delivered
acceptedOne clear face with a real smile. One full-length, casually. One mid-hobby. One with friends (you, identifiable). One with the dog. One where you're laughing at something off-camera like life is genuinely good.read 22:09 ✓✓
Constraints
- Slot one: your face, unmistakably, recent. The reveal-at-the-door strategy has a 0% second-date rate.
- Maximum one mirror selfie. The mirror has done enough.
- Group photos: you must be findable in under two seconds. This is not Where's Waldo.
- The fish is released. It was never about the fish.
- Recency rule: if the photo requires a disclaimer, it requires deletion.
Hints
- You're not picking your six best-looking photos. You're picking six frames of a trailer.
- The laughing-at-something photo outperforms the posed one every time — people match with the energy, not the pose.
- Ask a friend to pick. You've been staring at your own face too long to see it.