{
  "id": 17188,
  "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/06/were-me-maxxing-so-much-were-saying-30-percent-fewer-words-a-day-than-we-did-20-years-ago",
  "title": "We’re ‘me-maxxing’ so much, we’re saying 30% fewer words a day than we did 20 years ago",
  "summary": "From Tom Wolfe's \"Me\" decade of the 1970s, to the convenience economy of the 2020s, we're \"me-maxxing\" our time, and we're talking less as a result.",
  "authors": "Catherina Gioino",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T19:26:40.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-fortune-ai",
  "source_name": "Fortune AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://fortune.com/section/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17188",
  "original_url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/06/were-me-maxxing-so-much-were-saying-30-percent-fewer-words-a-day-than-we-did-20-years-ago",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}